type private industry aerospace and space tourism founded october 2013 headquarters tucson arizona key people jane poynter ceo taber maccallum cto alan stern chief scientist mark kelly website www.worldviewexperience.com world view enterprises inc. or world view is a private american near space exploration company headquartered in tucson arizona that plans to use high altitude helium 1 2 balloons to gently lift people and scientific payloads twenty miles approximately 32 kilometers above earth for the purposes of space tourism scientific research and a wide range of other commercial applications . 3 world view plans to offer private citizens views of the curvature of the earth amidst the blackness of space from inside a pressurized space rated vehicle suspended beneath a high altitude balloon . the space rated capsule which will hold six passengers and two crew members will ascend during a nominal flight profile to an altitude of 100 000 feet 20 miles or 32 kilometers above earth . 4 during a test flight in june 2014 world view successfully deployed and remotely navigated a parafoil back down to earth from an altitude of 50 000 feet . 5 an october 2015 test flight brought a 10 percent scale passenger capsule to over 100 000 feet altitude ; a full scale test is anticipated to follow . 6 a september 2016 flight carried a small unmanned scientific payload to an altitude of over 100 000 feet on behalf of the southwest research institute through nasa s flight opportunities program . 7 world view is planning to operate its commercial flights from spaceport tucson beginning in 2017 . 8 contents 1 history 1.1 key people 2 see also 3 references history edit key people edit taber maccallum and jane poynter of world view enterprises at the pima county board of supervisors meeting 19 january 2016 jane poynter co founder and ceo was one of the original eight biosphere 2 crew members . after two years inside biosphere 2 a three acre hermetically sealed environment in the arizona desert she went on to co found paragon space development corporation which designs and manufactures life support technologies rated for extreme environments including outer space . 9 paragon has supplied hardware to more than 70 spaceflight missions including ones to the international space station and mir . 10 taber maccallum co founder and cto was also one of the original biosphere 2 crew members and went on to co found paragon space development corporation alongside jane poynter . taber maccallum was named popular science inventor of the year in 2008 for a toxic water diving suit that helps hazmat divers safely navigate contaminated waters . 11 alan stern co founder and chief scientist was appointed nasa s associate administrator for the science mission directorate essentially nasa s top ranking official for science in april 2007 . in this position stern directed a us 4.4 billion organization with 93 separate flight missions and a program of over 3 000 research grants . 12 he is also the principal investigator of the new horizons mission to pluto and the chief scientist at moon express . 13 mark kelly world view s director of flight crew operations is a retired nasa space shuttle commander and u.s. navy test pilot . during his tenure with nasa he piloted two space shuttle flights and commanded two others including space shuttle endeavour on its final mission . 14 ron garan chief pilot for robotic flight operations and upcoming human spaceflights a retired nasa astronaut and fighter pilot . 15 16 see also edit zero2infinity another near space balloon tourism company paragon space development corporation inspiration mars commercial spaceflight federation references edit world view s balloon based space tourism to lift off in 2017 . space.com . retrieved 14 april 2016 . sarah cruddas for cnn 5 march 2015 . balloons could be your 75 000 ticket to space cnn.com . cnn . retrieved 14 april 2016 . wall mike 2014 07 28 . world view to loft experiments on balloon test flights this year . space.com . retrieved 2016 02 17 . lydia dishman 2014 09 02 . why this company wants to take you on a balloon ride to the edge of space fast company business innovation . fast company . retrieved 2016 02 17 . world view tests scale model of its high altitude balloon system newspace journal . newspacejournal.com . retrieved 2016 02 17 . wall mike 28 october 2015 . watch this amazing world view test flight for balloon based space tourism . space.com . retrieved 4 march 2016 . world view enterprises 2016 09 07 . world view completes successful nasa flight mission . spaceref.com . retrieved 2016 09 13 . wall mike 2016 01 20 . spaceport tucson world view s new home for balloon tourist flights . space.com . retrieved 2016 02 17 . what lessons came out of biosphere 2 . npr . 2013 09 27 . retrieved 2016 02 17 . jane poynter cofounder of paragon space development . website . fastcompany . 1 april 2010 . retrieved 11 april 2016 . a sewage proof suit popular science . popsci.com . 2008 05 13 . retrieved 2016 02 17 . alan stern . fsi.ucf.edu . retrieved 2016 02 17 . dr. alan stern named chief scientist for moon express solar system exploration research virtual institute . lunarscience.nasa.gov . 2015 03 03 . retrieved 2016 02 17 . nasa astronaut mark kelly named director of flight crew operations for world view enterprises human flights to the edge of space . reuters.com . 2013 12 12 . retrieved 2016 02 17 . world view enterprises 2016 02 23 . astronaut ron garan joins world view as chief pilot . retrieved 2016 02 23 . clash jim 24 february 2016 . extreme ballooning astronaut ron garan takes pilot slot for world view experience . magazine website . forbes . retrieved 26 february 2016 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title world view enterprises & oldid 739248670 categories space organizationsprivate spaceflightballoons aircraft navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk 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