Learning space about balloon with the Bloon

Now that were grounded the space shuttle, essentially, it's time start new ways, to leave the atmosphere.

Virgin Galactic planes banking can be expensive traveling with space, but this is the first time I heard of travelling in the area of balloon.

This lighter-than-air space ship, Bloon, reach 22 miles (36 km) into space. That's not enough to swim passengers with zero gravity enough, to see the curvature of the Earth, but. Check out the video after the jump to see what it might look like.

The balloon is the creation of company zero2infinity and it only stay can be in the room for only a few minutes. From there it easily parachuting to Earth, and you have a great story to tell.

The idea of traveling through the atmosphere in a balloon is not new, since it was first balloonist could see that in fact, that the Earth was round. Too bad not us to the moon can to travel like a balloon in the adventures of Baron Munchausen.

It turns out, we could withdraw the Bloon ready, by the year 2015 see. Up to $156,000 per seat, and I wonder who will pay for this flight is the cost of the flight.

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Forget space shuttles, Boeing and Lockheed Martin have their own space capsule plans

For those who are still in the last space shuttle missions, you know, that there is more than a way to get people into space.

What you see here is the Boeing crew space transportation vehicle, CST-100. It was introduced a year ago, and Boeing is planning to test the year 2015 on an Atlas V rocket.

It is actually three tests. The first is a simple test, followed by a test that deliberately fail to test, set the capsule abort system. The third mission be a manned mission to the international space station.

As mentioned in the title, Lockheed Martin working on a space capsule own. In fact, Boeing and Lockheed Martin working with an organization called the United Space Alliance, a contract that NASA has since they now work with a commercial crew development program.

I wonder whether we will not shoot always a way, these capsules from a gun, Slingshot or otherwise, relating to huge pipes of fuel will discover. You would like to purchase from Kagi, the capsule first mission involved be man, I heard that Boeing is looking for people, these capsules to occupy.

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