A Spanish company makes plans to travel to the space in air balloon from the Canary Islands.

    The Canary Islands returns to be protagonist of the tourist space travels. Gran Canaria has a project to travel around the orbit. They would like to go to space by air balloon inflated with helium. The Spanish company, located in Barcelona, Zero2infinity, is studying to develop their project in the Technology Park of Fuerteventura.

     From 2015, the tourists will go to the space from the island. 36 Km high, to feel the weightlessness. The price of this travel is 110000 EUR each person.

     The “Bloon Project” of the company Zero2infinity, consists to ascend in a helium air balloon joined with a cabin. This cabin, has five meters of diameter, has capacity for four people and two crews. The people will see the space from its big windows. The travel is six hours long: three hours to go up, two hours to stay in the space and one hour to descend.

It will be very close to the movie "UP"