Podcast: Jane Poynter's Plan To Lift Tourists To The Edge Of Space

Podcast: Jane Poynter’s Plan To Lift Tourists To The Edge Of Space

Editorial Staff

Thursday, April 09, 2015 at 12:00 AM ET

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Key Takeaways:

World View Enterprises plans to offer space tourism, lifting passengers into the upper atmosphere for multi-hour tours of the planet.
CEO Jane Poynter detailed the company's technology at the Aircraft Electronics Association convention.
The system utilizes a balloon-and-parafoil approach to transport passengers.

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We caught up with space-tourism company World View Enterprises’ CEO Jane Poynter at the Aircraft Electronics Association convention in Dallas, Texas. Poynter described the technology behind World View’s balloon-and-parafoil plan to lift passengers into the upper atmosphere for a several-hour tour of the planet.

Duration: 9:42

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