Space Perspective balloon
Space Perspective plans to start flying stratospheric balloons from the Kennedy Space Center in early, and eventually start carrying people on flights to the edge of space.

Space Perspective, a startup planning to offer tourists trips to the edge of space in a high-altitude balloon, has raised $7 million in a seed round that will allow the company to test its technologies.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...