We're now one step closer to seeing tourists making balloon flights to the edge of outer space. Just last week, Florida company Space Perspective sent a balloon-lifted test capsule to the outer ...

It is virtually impossible to burst a water balloon by throwing it at a wall unless the balloon has been pre-stretched. This is the finding of researchers at Princeton University in the US who have ...

Space Perspective’s Spaceship Neptune test capsule Excelsior returns to Port Canaveral aboard the MS Voyager after its first full test flight, on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. ..

Space Perspective could begin test flights of its privately owned capsule suspended under a high-altitude balloon within the next couple of months, the company's co-founder told Ars this week.

So you can imagine the capsule on the back of a launch ship with a balloon stretching way up, 600 feet above it,” said Space Perspective’s CEO Jane Poynter.Spaceship Neptune will carry eight ...

New study shows balloon in a capsule helps patients lose nearly twice as much weight than diet, exercise and lifestyle therapy alone Date: November 4, 2016 ...

Well, then maybe a capsule strapped to a giant balloon that floats more than 15 miles above ground could scratch that itch for you. And you’ll soon have several options to choose from, CNBC reports.

A space balloon that promises to carry eight guests in a swanky swinger’s lounge to the edge of space released its newly designed capsule today. Space Perspective said that the new capsule ...

Controversial capsule device Obalon is not yet approved in the United States. May 15, 2014— -- At 330 pounds, Kimmy G. says she is never full. The Orange, Calif., resident, who asked that her ...

Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner, the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound more than a decade ago, died in ...

Both capsules and balloons are manufactured here, the balloons in a 700-foot-long custom facility. “As it goes up through the atmosphere, it expands.