Richard Branson, CEO of Virgin and wunderkind of my generation, is offering flights to space starting I believe as early as 2011. I was only a kid when I watched man take his enfant steps into weightlessness. I’ve never for an instant thought that this would be an option for me in my lifetime. Not even a year ago would I have entertained the possibility but it will be possible in 2011 although prohibitively expensive at $200,000 per seat. Most people would have to mortgage their house to raise that kind of money but its about one twenty fifth of what the Russians were charging private businessmen to take them into space only a year or two ago. Is it really that hard to believe that ten years hence we’ll be able to hop onto a Virgin space ship and experience weightlessness and view our blue globe from 60+ miles up for the cost of a first class ticket or less? We truly are living in very interesting times.