Startup company plans balloon trips to the edge of space by 2021
(World News USA)

If you`re trying to avoid airborne viruses, heading to a near vacuum might not be the worst idea. A Florida company is planning to fly passengers to the edge of space in a high-tech version of a hot air balloon, with a pilot and up to eight travelers riding in a pressurized capsule suspended from an enormous blimp. Human space flight company Space Perspective has scheduled the test flight of its Spaceship Neptune for early 2021, from the auspicious surroundings of the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA`s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. That test flight will be uncrewed and carrying research payloads, but Space Perspective hopes that in a few years it`ll also be taking space tourists on...