By: AP | Alaska | Posted: Jul 4, 2020 7:04:07 pm Each passenger could pay an estimated 5,000 for a six-hour trip. (Image credit: Facebook / Space perspective) A company wants to use an advanced balloon to take customers from the Earth’s surface in Alaska to the highest levels of …
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