Like his job title implies, Sakaguchi oversees several facets of production at the balloon factory. When a product doesn’t meet company standards—for example, if a balloon pops during testing ...

Balloons the size of a football field that aim to take tourists into space as soon as next year will be constructed at a new facility on the Space Coast.

Garan and others recently toured us around World View's global headquarters in Tucson, Arizona, which is a 142,000-square-foot campus complete with a balloon factory, spaceport, mission control ...

A Tiny Balloon Factory, Small-Batch Whiskey, and 3D Printing: A Dispatch from the Future of Manufacturing "There are certain things you can do in low-volume that you can't do at high-volume." ...

The length of our balloon manufactured is about 550 feet long. And it will take about five weeks to build some of the first ones," said Mitzi Giles, factory director.

After 19 years creating balloon art for youngsters, Chad Rutan was sidelined by an injury. ... Spaghetti Factory managers say their relationship with Rutan is mutually beneficial.

Its balloon-powered space capsule, named Spaceship Neptune, is designed to be slowly lifted to the stratosphere, about 100,000 feet (19 miles) above Earth, at a speed of 12 miles per hour.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Balloons the size of a football field that aim to take tourists up to the edge of space as soon as next year will be constructed at a new facility on the Space Coast. State and ...