From FoxBusiness.com…
Talk of space tourism is blasting off just one day after Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson made history by being the first billionaire to travel into the cosmos in a spaceship he helped fund.
But one company asserts there are other ways to take a galactic voyage; rather than rocketing through the atmosphere, for instance, you can float.
Taber MacCallum, co-founder of Space Perspective (alongside his wife, Jane Poynter), joined FOX Business’ “Varney & Co.” Monday to detail the company’s intention behind the latest space travel venture — floating into the stratosphere in a space balloon.
“This is the slow, gentle way to go,” MacCallum, a former technical adviser to Elon Musk on human spaceflight before SpaceX was a reality, told host Stuart Varney. “[A] 12 mile-an-hour ride, 6-hour flight.”
