| CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. | Ditch the rocket, take a balloon to space | | Instead of rocket-powered sub-orbital flights like those of Virgin Galactic, could high-altitude ballooning become the most viable way of letting paying tourists experience space -- or at least something thrillingly close to it?




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| Space balloon; what a view! | | World View promises to take passengers to the edge of space in a high altitude balloon for a one-of-a-kind view of Earth.




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