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Click heads to Asia where we visit the company in China called Little Cloud, who are working on a way of taking tourists into Space - using a gigantic balloon filled with helium.

Click heads to Asia where we visit the company in China called Little Cloud, who are working on a way of taking tourists into Space - using a gigantic balloon filled with helium.

We catch up with Hakuto in Japan - one of the Google X-Prize finalists who are hoping to win 20m US dollars by placing a rover on the Moon. We look at the latest advances in battery technology - including a super charged ion battery that can charge in just six minutes and travel to a cave in the Swiss Alps where researchers on working on ways to store renewable energy.

30 minutes

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Fri 1 Dec 201701:30GMT

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