Another company is offering edge-of-space balloon trips, but at just $50,000
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The space balloon race is in full effect, as Arizona's World View offers five-day trips 100,000 feet above the Grand Canyon at the bargain price of $50,000.
(CNN) — What do you do for ultimate bragging rights when you've already visited the Grand Canyon, the Great Barrier Reef, the Serengeti and the Giza Pyramids?
You go see them all again -- but from the edge of space.
Stratospheric ballooning company World View has just opened up reservations to get in line for epic five-day balloon voyages that promise to take travelers 100,000 feet above some of the most magnificent landmarks on the planet.
The US Food and Drug Administration sent warning letters to Target, Walmart, Kroger and Albertsons after some of the stores failed to remove recalled baby formula linked to a large infant botulism outbreak.
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