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Later stage of the explosion. John Powell has a dream: getting humans into space via balloon. For now, he’s perfecting his launch techniques by wafting payloads into the stratosphere.

Never before had a human, let alone a duck, flown in a balloon. The year was 1783, a milestone year for aviation—the dream of flying had finally been realized. On October 15th of that year ...

Space Perspective, a space tour operator that planned to use a high-altitude balloon to send people to the edge of space, appears to have ceased operations after being evicted from a Florida airport.