Airship groomed for flight to edge of space

[XZeroII]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5025388/


Basically, they are trying to use helium to get into space and stay there. Interesting proposal and much safer.

 

[conjur]

The full-size station in our grand vision is 2 miles across

Sweet!

 

[Czar]

very cool, and thanks for the science news

 

[XZeroII]

We need more than just politics around here

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: XZeroII
We need more than just politics around here

Ayup.

Can you imagine how hard it would be to have even a one-day moratorium on political news up here?

 

[Czar]

totaly agree, and I think in this field we even agree on for the most part and can maybe have an good discussions about this

so.... whats the max weight this thing can carry? would be interesting if they would design light weight shuttles to be launched from these platforms into space

 

[XZeroII]

I would imagine that it couldn't carry a lot of weight, but a few thousand pounds doesn't sound too unreasonable. It would be like a giant bouncy castle up in space!