Ever since mankind/human-kind has stared perhaps even glared at the stars we have wanted to go there. Some thought heaven was above us in the skies, which is why we refer to them as "the heavens above" and there are obviously the hells below as well.
When JFK announced our intentions to get to the moon before the Russians we finally began to crawl to wards leaving our own planet, and yet despite taking our first steps we are still in the cradle nearly four decades since. Not too long ago a company called Scaled Composites won the Ansari X-Prize by developing ans successfully testing a lauch and return vehicle that had a turn around of 48 hours from launch to relaunch.
Richar Branston of Virgin Atlantic billionaire-ism fame has partnered with Scaled Composites to form Virgin Galatic for the beginning of space tourism in a very serious manner.
In other news Jeff Bezos (Amazon.com founder) has made a big step in his new company Blue Origins and announced the prototype design for their launch vehicle and they have begun prospecting a site for launching the vehicle.
The future is here...lets get on board.
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