If you want a glimpse of the near-future, go get a box of Cheerios. Open the box and pull out the bag of cereal. Feel the texture of the bag. Note how hard it is to rip apart. A cereal bag is the ...

To reach Mount Everest's 29,035-foot snow-capped summit in the Himalayas, hardy travelers should expect to invest long travel times and up to $200,000 on a daring expedition that's bound to be "very ...

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 local government ...

In 1783, hot air balloons became the first viable option for people to explore the world from the sky. In the years since then, balloon flight technology has evolved from cloth balloons and open ...

Imagine watching dawn break from 100,000 feet above ground level, with the brilliant sun peeking above Earth's blue atmosphere into a deep-black starry sky with "incredible colors playing across the ...

The company that looks to send tourists up on a space balloon from Brevard County from the old Kennedy Space Center shuttle landing facility also has chosen to build a campus and manufacturing complex ...

Google is succeeding in keeping high-altitude balloons aloft in the stratosphere for more than three months at a time — a key goal in its ambitious Project Loon program to deliver Internet from the ...

McLean, VA … Show management for IMTS – The International Manufacturing Technology Show 2012 has announced the festival schedule for the hallmark IMTS hot air ...