Airships Offer Alternative Stairway to Space : Discovery News
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In the 2009 Pixar animated cartoon "Up" a widower affixes hundreds of balloons to his house and floats high above the clouds and between continents. An idea that may sound equally preposterous is to float a very large ballooned vehicle right up to the edge of space -- and then give it a boost into orbit.
In the 2009 Pixar animated cartoon "Up" a widower affixes hundreds of balloons to his house and floats high above the clouds and between continents. An idea that may sound equally preposterous is to float a very large ballooned vehicle right up to the edge of space -- and then give it a boost into orbit.