anyway, nasa is now going (from what i can make out) rent craft from private firms.
there are now a few firms building low cost 'space planes', even virgin. they are charging £100k (about $200k) to go into space. when you consider russia charges about £1 million for a civilian (as in you or me) you can see that costs are dropping.
in 20 year time space travel may be the norm. a bit like when planes came out only the rich could use them, now its cheap as chips.
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