The Final Frontier
There have been several stories about people outside of any government trying to make it into space. I think this is awesome. In fact, I think this is the only real hope we have for making space travel an ordinary thing. My generation doesn’t have any really cool memories as far as space travel is concerned. There’s the space shuttle program but it obviously hasn’t been a smashing success…Hubble’s cool (13 years old this week) but not super cool…and that is about it. We need something major like the moon landing.
Now Jeff Bezos is throwing some of that money Amazon has started to make in the direction of private space travel. There are others too who are working on making private space travel a reality. Good for them! If I ever have any money to invest I want some of it to go to ventures like this. I also want to save some cash away for the time when it is possible to take a trip up there. Of course there are some other preparations I’ll have to make too (I need to go on a diet!) but it will be easier to get motivated for that if I know the reward will be a trip up into space.
“I want to go high because that is where the view is” Burt Rutan
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I swear I’ll never go in to space willingly until the Enterprise from the Star Trek Next Generation is built.
Comment by Michael — April 30, 2003 @ 9:59 am