Report: pop star to be next space tourist. Lance Bass, a member of the pop group *NSYNC, will fly to the International Space... [spacetoday.net]

Space tourism is the surest way to get the rest of us travelling to the stars. It will have to be funded by the wealthy, until we start getting to the economies of scale where it is as inexpensive as a long plane trip. Several technologies (truly reusable launch vehicles, and a much lower price per pound to get into orbit) have to be developed before this can happen. So I hope that his flight goes well, and that we will soon be seeing more people getting into orbit, and visiting the station.

This is the next step to getting us into the stars, and off earth. Next up, a moon base, then mars, and then we will be limited only by the speed of our drives.

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