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Tucson-Based Space Balloon Company Wins NASA Contracts
Published: Thursday, August 25, 2016 - 4:44pm
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(Photo courtesy World View)
A World View balloon in October 2015.
A Tucson-based company is getting some money from NASA to do research with stratospheric balloons. They basically float on top of the earth’s atmosphere, in an environment that’s close to what a spacecraft in orbit around the Earth would see.
Taber MacCallum is the chief technology officer for World View.
