Jane Poynter

She was co-founder and former CEO of World View Enterprises, a private near-space exploration and technology company headquartered in Tucson, Arizona.

Prior to World View, Poynter served as co-founder, Chairwoman and President of Paragon Space Development Corporation, a designer and manufacturer of hazardous environment life support equipment.

[citation needed] World View was founded and incorporated in 2012 by a team of aerospace and life support veterans, including Biosphere 2 crew-members Poynter and Taber MacCallum, Alan Stern (the principal investigator of the New Horizons mission to Pluto), and former NASA astronaut Mark Kelly.

[citation needed] The Stratollite[6] is a remotely operated, navigable, un-crewed stratospheric flight vehicle designed and engineered to station-keep over customer-specified areas of interest for long periods of time (days, weeks, and months).

While inside Biosphere 2, she co-founded the firm with fellow biospherian, Taber MacCallum, whom she later married,[8] Grant Anderson, Paragon's President and CEO and several other aerospace engineers.

The two person spaceflight mission was originally to be a private, nonprofit venture[11] of 501 days duration which will allow a small human-carrying spacecraft to use the smallest possible amount of fuel to get it to Mars and back to Earth.

Poynter also worked with the World Bank on projects to mitigate global climate change and grow crops in drought-stricken Africa and Central America.