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Commercial Suborbital Balloon Flight Facility Takes Shape

Posted by samzenpus on 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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  1. Re:First? by VortexCortex · · Score: 4, Funny

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

    SHHH! I'm selling my station wagon as a "Sub-Luminal Transporter" on Greg's List.