[FPSPACE] Using balloons to find alien worlds

[LARRY KLAES]

The “Planetscope”

A team of NASA scientists plan to balloon into the sky in search of other 
planets - but before you think they’ve confused a Jules Verne book with a 
planning document, they aren’t planning to get all the way to alien shores 
there with nothing but air to hold them up. The balloons will hoist 
two-meter telescopes ten kilometers up where they can see space a lot 
clearer than their land-bound cousins.

Full article here:

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/03/the-planetscope.html