You'll arrive at the launch site predawn, Poynter says, and step inside a comfortable capsule with a few other passengers. You'll lift off the ground, and float upward for an hour and a half, gently rising at a speed of about 1,000 feet a minute. When you arrive at the top of the atmosphere, Poynter says, you'll see "the most unbelievable panorama of stars" around you. The sun, rising up over the ground below you, will begin to creep over the horizon and light up the Earth below. You'll hover in that place for about an hour before gliding back to the ground using a rectangular parachute called a parafoil.

Oh, and there will be appetizers and booze. Mustn't forget about the appetizers and booze.

Today, this vision is still the stuff of Poynter's imagination, but recently, that vision moved a lot closer to reality when World View completed a flight that took its balloon 100,000 feet in the air, and safely landed it using a parafoil.