Hot-Air Balloon to Take Tourists 20 Miles Above Earth

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A space-tourism company announced it has successfully completed the first small-scale test flight of a high-altitude balloon and capsule being developed to let tourists to float 20 miles above Earth. Tuscon-based World View Enterprises said Tuesday that it launched the flight last week from Roswell, New Mexico. Company CEO Jane Poynter said the system broke the world record for highest parafoil flight, lifting a payload to 120,000 feet. "It went really, really, really well," Poynter said. "Actually,...

Posted By: Pawan Lubana on Wednesday, 25 June 2014

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12 Things You Forgot Happened in 2013

1. Paula Deen's Career Melts After Deposition Paula Deen, the celebrity cook known best for her affinity for adding extra butter, faced career chaos this summer over details of a leaked deposition. The paperwork included Deen's admissions to using the N-word and plans for a Southern plantation-style wedding, among others. In the wake of the deposition, Deen was booted from pork-producing company Smithfield Foods and her television home, the Food Network. Both noted an intolerance to racial slurs as the cause. Deen later appeared...

Posted By: Pawan Lubana on Wednesday, 25 December 2013

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Inside the Most High-Tech Cab in New York: Car Force One

Sometimes you think you’ve seen everything in tech. Other times, everything in tech gets packed into a car for the ultimate in luxury. If you ever wanted to play on a PlayStation 4, watch cable TV, finish some work on a full-size keyboard, print photos and/or enjoy a beer as strobe lights pulsate around you on your way to work in a clean, comfy cab, take a ride in Car Force One. A ride fit for a president, Car Force One is a luxury car service that chauffeurs you around the New York area in the most teched-out car in the world....

Posted By: Pawan Lubana on Wednesday, 13 November 2013

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