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Forget rockets – Space Perspective wants to take you to ultra-high-altitudes using balloons
Before Jane Poynter and Taber MacCallum were entrepreneurs, they were researchers. Occasionally, they were even the subjects of their research: the pair
Occasionally, they were even the subjects of their research: the pair first made headlines in the early ’90s when they joined the crew of Biosphere 2, an experiment designed to better understand how closed ecological systems might eventually support life in outer space. They spent 2 years in a large glass dome in the Arizona desert with six others, with Poynter heading the farm’s design and operations and MacCallum leading development of the systems that recycled their air and water. The husband-and-wife duo departed World View in 2018; the following year, they started another balloon company, Space Perspective, this time squarely focused on ultra-high-altitude tourism.
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