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Commercial Suborbital Balloon Flight Facility Takes Shape

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 29, 2012 @01:03PM from the up-up-and-away dept.

coondoggie writes "The Near Space Corporation this week said it would begin developing a $6.9 million phase of what it says is the first commercial high altitude balloon flight facility in the country. Commercial balloon flights to near space will be launched – though the company didn't say when — from the new facility in Tillamook, Oregon, including several of those reserved through the NASA's Flight Opportunities Program."

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Time to remake an 80's classic. by wbr1 · 2012-02-29 13:38 · Score: 3, Funny

'99 Suborbital Balloons'

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Re:Why Tillamook? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-29 13:42 · Score: 2, Funny

In that case,TX must have been too dangerous, what with all the conservative gasbags and even more cows.
Re:First? by VortexCortex · 2012-02-29 15:03 · Score: 4, Funny

Balloon flights have been suborbital since the Montgolfier brothers first launched in 1783.
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