Space Tourism Coming to Victoria After $37 million Deal With US Stratospheric Balloon Company

Worldview, a provider of high-altitude stratospheric ballooning technology, will set up Indo-pacific operations in Melbourne, providing 200 engineering jobs.

NASA Johnson Space Center

Tourists will be able to take a near-space flight to the Great Barrier Reef after Victoria invested in U.S. satellite imagery and space tourism company under the innovation fund Breakthrough Victoria—but not everyone can see the benefit.

The $37 million (US$25 million) investment—the biggest expenditure to date for the fund—into Arizona-based company World View  was announced on May 15 by Victorian Minister for Economic Growth Tim Pallas.