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BLOOMBERG QUICKTAKE - If you've had dreams of seeing the sunrise from space, you might be closer to achieving them than you think. Space tourism company World View will begin commercial flights to space in 2024. World View CEO Ryan Hartman and World View Chief Earth Advocate Adrian Grenier joined Quicktake's Scarlet Fu to discuss the company's business strategy and the benefits of space exploration.

YAHOO FINANCE - World View CEO Ryan Hartman and World View Chief Earth Advocate Adrian Grenier join Yahoo Finance Live to discuss the benefits of space tourism, making their balloon space flights available in 2024, the rise of crypto, and the impact of bitcoin mining.

TODAY - Actor Adrian Grenier joins the 3rd Hour of TODAY to talk about his role as the first Chief Earth Advocate for the space tourism company World View, which is planning to take passengers nearly 23 miles above Earth in a high-tech balloon and capsule. “I get to welcome people back to Earth and rediscover their relationship to the planet,” he says.

PRESS RELEASE - World View today announced environmentalist, actor, and UN Environment Goodwill Ambassador Adrian Grenier has been named its Chief Earth Advocate. In this new role he will support World View’s mission to rediscover Earth, inspiring new perspectives on the planet and encouraging deeper respect for it as a living organism. Today’s announcement follows the company’s entry into the space tourism and exploration market offering an affordable, long duration and accessible space experience on Earth.

DEZEEN - Space tourism company World View has unveiled designs by PriestmanGoode for a capsule that will fly passengers to the edge of the Earth's atmosphere under a giant balloon in two years' time.

PRESS RELEASE - World View, an expert in stratospheric exploration on a mission to help spaceflight participants rediscover Earth, today announces the debut of its spaceflight capsule prototype. The announcement marks another exciting milestone for the company, following recent news of its entry into the space tourism sector and appointment of President of Tourism and Exploration, Dale Hipsh.

TODAY - The space tourism company World View, is producing capsules that will provide an out-of-this-world option to view the sun rise over the Earth. Passengers will sit inside a ten-thousand pound pressurized capsule attached to a football stadium-sized helium balloon. Unlike competitors, such as Blue Origin, that charge half a million dollars for a ride that lasts minutes, this experience will cost customers about $50,000. NBC’s Steve Patterson reports for TODAY.

THE TELEGRAPH - Have you always dreamed of gazing down on Planet Earth? Of feeling the ineffable phenomenon of weightlessness? Well, you can now take one step closer to that dream becoming reality, provided you have $450,000 (£330,000) knocking around.

CHEDDAR NEWS - Ryan Hartman, president and CEO of stratospheric ballooning company World View, has officially entered the race to space. Hartman joins Cheddar News to discuss his company's space tourism endeavor as it gears up to take passengers to the edge of space.

REUTERS - Balloons have entered the space tourism race as tech company World View announced its plans to float passengers to the edge of space in a silent manner.

THRILLIST - Space tourism is only just beginning. This year alone, we saw the first all-civilian team travel to space. By 2024 people will be able to go to space in a high-tech hot air balloon.

GIZMODO - The overwhelming majority of humans will never be able to afford flights to space, but World View Enterprises is hoping that its stratospheric balloon ride, at a fraction of the cost of SpaceX or Blue Origin trips, will offer a very space-like experience for its customers.

TRAVEL+LEISURE - World View, a stratospheric ballooning company, announced an expansion of services that includes its new edge-of-space tourism experience, which takes place inside a high-tech hot air balloon.

SPACENEWS - World View, a company founded to carry people into the stratosphere to give them space-like views of the Earth, is reviving those plans, putting it into competition with two of its co-founders.

TODAY - In the latest twist in the space tourism race, a company is planning to take paying passengers to the edge of space using a massive balloon instead of a rocket. NBC’s Tom Costello got an exclusive tour at the Worldview Space Port in Tucson, Arizona.

BUSINESS INSIDER - Space tourism startup World View is building a rocket-less vessel to shuttle passengers to the stratosphere. The first journey is expected to launch in 2024 and will cost participants just $50,000. The capsule will operate out of spaceports built at ancient wonders, like the Grand Canyon and the Great Barrier Reef.

SPACE.COM - Aspiring space tourists now have another option to consider. World View Enterprises is developing a balloon-based system that will carry people to the stratosphere, with the first commercial flights targeted for early 2024, the Arizona-based company announced today (Oct. 4).

PRESS RELEASE - World View, the leading stratospheric ballooning company, today announced an expansion of services that includes the global launch of the first-of-its-kind, edge-of-space experience. The World View space tourism experience is the most affordable, longest duration and most accessible space experience on Earth. As a purpose-first company, World View is focused on inspiring, creating and exploring new perspectives, offering participants more accessibility to space tourism experiences than ever before. World View’s mission is to bring as many people as possible to the edge of space so that at 100,000 feet, they’ll see a world without borders or species and come back driven to make the world a better place.