Space Perspective balloon
Space Perspective plans to start flying stratospheric balloons from the Kennedy Space Center in early, and eventually start carrying people on flights to the edge of space. Credit: Space Perspective

WASHINGTON — Space Perspective, a startup planning to offer tourists trips to the edge of space in a high-altitude balloon, has raised $7 million in a seed round that will allow the company to test its technologies.

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Jeff Foust writes about space policy, commercial space, and related topics for SpaceNews. He earned a Ph.D. in planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree with honors in geophysics and planetary science...