A Balloon With a View
Interdirect loves big ideas, and they don’t come much bigger than those of José Mariano López-Urdiales, who plans to allow us all to glimpse the curve of the earth from a balloon.
“The first people who described the earth as a blue ball were not in rockets,” the Spanish entrepreneur says. “They were flying in balloons.”
José is offering what he calls the “near-space” experience of viewing the planet and the space beyond it from 36 km (22 miles) above the earth. He hopes to have the first passengers aloft in the near-space vehicle called a “bloon” by the middle of this decade.
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