Balloons the size of a football field that aim to take tourists into space as soon as next year will be constructed at a new facility on the Space Coast.

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ORLANDO, Fla. — Balloons the size of a football field that aim to take tourists up to the edge of space as soon as next year will be constructed at a new facility on the Space Coast. State and ...

Space Coast dignitaries attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony at this balloon factory in August. MacCallum said he expects crews to complete the first balloon in a few weeks.

The length of our balloon manufactured is about 550 feet long. And it will take about five weeks to build some of the first ones," said Mitzi Giles, factory director.

The new facility can manufacture two balloons at the same time. “The only high-volume space balloon factory in the world,” Sen. Debbie Mayfield (R-Indialantic) said during Tuesday’s dedication.

Factory workers should soon increase production to a couple of balloons per month, he said. Balloons are flown once, then recycled. MS Voyager will dock at a Fort Pierce marine terminal for ...

TITUSVILLE, Fla. – The company that advertised seeing the Earth from a balloon is fighting eviction from Space Coast Regional Airport.. News 6 reported last month how the airport threatened to ...

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Space Perspective, the Titusville balloon-tourism company that hopes to someday lift passengers 100,000 feet above Earth ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Balloons the size of a football field that aim to take tourists up to the edge of space as soon as next year will be constructed at a new facility on the Space Coast. State and ...