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Balloons could power space tourism by 2016

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Jun
2014

Richard Branson is investing in a plane thatll take tourists to the edge of space, but who needs that when youve got balloons? A company in Arizona is working on a high-altitude craft thatll use a huge balloon to gently carry passengers voyagers to the edges of the atmosphere. Its already tested the technology with a 10-percent size scale model, which carried and safely returned a payload of 200 kilos.

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