Former NASA astronaut Ron Garan is joining ... "The company's proprietary balloon technology is used as a satellite orbiting the planet or hovering over a single location for many months, allowing ...

Astronaut Ron Garan was profoundly moved by ... the pilot will release the balloon, allowing the capsule to slowly descend to Earth under a giant steerable paragliding wing. World View’s vision ...

hydrogen-supported balloon with a passenger capsule in tow that can float atop Earth’s atmosphere. There, amateur astronauts can soak up the splendor of our home planet, thanks to panoramic ...

From zero-pressure balloon trips to astronaut boot camps, reservations for getting off the planet — or pretending to — are skyrocketing. The prices, however, are still out of this world.

The astronaut repeatedly referred to World View's balloon platform as a spacecraft ... have had the opportunity to see the Earth as a planet," he told NBC News. "We're going to give a lot ...

World View's balloon ride, which will let customers ... Mars efforts — the Inspiration Mars mission to send two astronauts on a Red Planet flyby in 2018 and Mars One, a project that aims to ...

A newly successful test of a balloon could allow paying human customers to enjoy stunning Earth views and the weightless astronaut experience ... the curvature of the planet Earth.

It’s all a bit lovey-dovey, but astronauts who have gone to orbit over the last half-century have made it clear that seeing our planet from ... announced stratosphere balloon ride as (hopefully ...