He will be one of three pilots on board the space balloon. Company co-founders Jane Poynter and Taber MacCallum will be the other two pilots. Branson has undertaken balloon journeys as well.

The first crewed Space Perspective flight is set to take place sometime in 2025, with planning for commercial voyages to ...

Looking for a reason to put up a balloon and payload into near-space? Not that one’s necessary, but the Global Space Balloon Challenge has got a variety of good reasons for you to do so ...

NASA's Scientific Balloon Program has returned to Wānaka, New Zealand, for two scheduled flights to test and qualify the ...

Space Perspective’s high hopes of launching tourists in a balloon to the edge of Earth’s orbit are not yet fully deflated — despite financial issues and job cuts at its Titusville headquarters.

Beginning in the early 1930s the United States Air Force began making forays into the atmosphere using balloons, and what followed laid the foundation for NASA and all American space exploration ...

The club started the Space Balloon Project in October last year to make the charms of the universe accessible to more people. The goal was to take photographs and video footage from the ...