Neptune test flight
Space Perspective performed its first high-altitude balloon flight, using a full-sized mockup of its Spaceship Neptune capsule, June 18 from Florida.

Space Perspective, the company planning to offer stratospheric balloon flights for tourists, has formally opened ticket sales days after its first test flight.

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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...