Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Forget rocket ships. Balloons are the next frontier in space tourism—if Zephalto has anything to say about it, that is. The French ...

Look up at the sky and dare dream of admiring the stars from a much closer perspective. Now, dig deep in your wallet to make sure you get to do just that, with a once-in-a-lifetime experience that ...

A Japanese startup announced plans Tuesday to launch commercial space viewing balloon flights that it hopes will bring an otherwise astronomically expensive experience down to Earth. Company CEO ...

Space Perspective is hoping to have commercial operations underway in 2025, but a seat on the luxurious balloon is gonna cost you. Reading time 3 minutes The dream, if you can call it that, of ...

Space Perspective is preparing for the first crewed flight of its stratospheric balloon, and Virgin Galactic founder and adventurer Richard Branson will be going along for the ride. Branson, who ...

A new Japanese space tourism business says it aims to “democratize space” by taking customers to extreme altitudes not with rockets, but good old-fashioned helium balloons. The journey will take ...

The Super Pressure Balloon Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) that launched on a scientific super pressure balloon April 16, 2023, local time from Wānaka, New Zealand, captured its first research images ...

Forget rocket ships. Balloons are the next frontier in space tourism—if Zephalto has anything to say about it, that is. The French outfit has just announced it will start sending travelers to the ...

Keisuke Iwaya, left, CEO of a Japanese space development company, Iwaya Giken, and Takayuki Hanasaka, JTB Senior Managing Executive Officer, pose for a photo after unveiling a two-seater cabin and a ...