Here’s the story that I pitched to Popular Mechanics last week, but Michael Belfiore beat me to it. Oh, well, he probably did a better job than I would have, anyway. I see now that Near Space isn’t really suborbital — it’s a high-altitude balloon ride. Good for extended upper atmospheric research, not so good for weightlessness.
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The view isn’t too bad either…
You could conceivably skydive from it too I guess 🙂
Speaking of which, theregister.com reports a FAA notice for a Blue Origin test flight today, 18000 foot ceiling. Maybe a freeflight/hover test of a VTOL first stage?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/24/blue_origin_test/
http://tfr.faa.gov/save_pages/detail_1_3552.html
Anybody know more about this?