Company gears up for a novel form of space travel
Space Perspective is looking to take passengers way up to the stratosphere later this year.
This isn't just a load of hot air.
Historians tell us that the first balloon to carry passengers was built by the brothers Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier and lifted off from terra firma on Sept. 19, 1783 with a sheep, a duck, and a rooster on board.
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The first recorded manned flight was made in a hot air balloon also built by the Montgolfier brothers on Nov. 21 of that same year and, from there, ballooning took off, so to speak.
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