Australia's Northern Territory is ideally placed to host key infrastructure and services for the global space industry, with competitive advantages in launch services for rockets and stratospheric ballooning, ground stations and space technology development and testing. NASA is no stranger to the territory, establishing its stratospheric ballooning facility in Alice Springs in the early 1970s. Why? Alice Springs and Central Australia have perfect weather conditions for balloon launches and the established road network together with low population density make payload recovery easy. Over the last four decades the facility has hosted numerous ballooning campaigns for the US, French and Japanese space agencies. Alice Springs is the ideal place for stratospheric ballooning. Australia's Northern Territory is a place where anything is possible. The opportunities, like space, are boundless.