NASA’s giant super pressure balloon, carrying the HIWIND experiment, is racing across the Pacific after launching from New ...

Richard Branson is going back to his balloon roots. The Virgin Galactic founder made record-breaking hot ... Related: Space ...

A private space tourism company called World View wants to gently float people almost 20 miles above Earth's surface in balloon-toted capsules ... posed by the low air pressure and cold ...

Space Perspective, a space tour operator that planned to use a high-altitude balloon to send people to the edge of space, appears to have ceased operations after being evicted from a Florida airport.

The balloon will lift a pressurized capsule carrying ... and a view of Earth’s atmosphere from the edge of space. The trip will last six hours, with two hours spent at maximum altitude, allowing ...

Andy Pasztor is a former aerospace reporter for The Wall Street Journal.

But [Becky] shows how to make a hot air balloon ... a propane-powered balloon but it is still fun and educational. It doesn’t seem likely that you are going to reach space with it either.

In the thin air at 95,085 feet, the helium in one of the balloons had expanded so much that the balloon exploded ... pictures beamed back from the edge of space. Some future astronauts, space ...

A watch case depicts the flight of a Montgolfier hot-air balloon. This 18th-century box is decorated with an image of J.A.C. Charles and M.N. Roberts rising above the Paris skyline in the first ...

The Space Minor has designed a special program that allows any student in the Space Minor an opportunity to build a balloon payload and launch it to the edge of space! Students are challenged to ...