Originally Posted by TheCrackedJack
I don't know about the rest of you, but I've always wanted to go into space. With Virgin Galactic launching in the next year or so it makes you wonder where the industry could go. Do you see a space hotel in the next 25 years or so? Or do you think the industry will fail to takeoff? I'm curious to hear opinions.
Personally, I think progess could be slow, but suborbital flights I hope will be affordable in a decade or so.
It's lamentably slow. I am old enough to remember the Apollo program. It was an exciting time. Things seem to have slowed down since then.
There will be some kind of space tourism, but I have idea when the day will come where someone can plonck down, say, $20k for a trip to space. I thought I'd see it in my lifetime; I don't think so! <sigh>