Everything Looks Nonsensical Before It Works.

With Any Luck, By The Time Nasa's Space Probe Hits Pluto, You'll Be Booking A Spaceflight With A Privately Run Suborbital Airline.

The Photographs Of Space Taken By Our Astronauts Have Been Published All Over The Place. But The Eye Is A Much More Dynamic Mechanism Than Any Camera Or Pictures. It's A More Exciting View In Person Than Looking At The Photographs. Of Course, I Personally Am Sick And Tired Of Hearing People Talk Like That: I Want To See It Myself!

The Next 15 Years Will See Thousands Of People Leave The Atmosphere On Suborbital Flights. My Company's Ss2 System Might Fly 100,000 People By 2024. If It Is Shown To Be Highly Profitable, Perhaps We Will See 20,000 People Traveling To Orbit By 2035, And Then Thousands To The Moon By 2050. If We Make A Courageous Decision, Like The Program We Kicked Off For Apollo, We Will See Our Grandchildren In Outposts On Other Planets.

Nasa Works For The White House. There Are Many At Nasa That Wish They Were Building A Modern Replacement For The Shuttle. However, They Had Marching Orders To Instead Work On Other Things, Some Of Which Should Have No Place In A Research Organization.

I Have A Hunch The Most Important Reason We're Going To Space Is Not Known Now.