Space Tourism

According to this article by CNN hundreds of travelers have signed up and trained to be among the first paying passengers aboard Virgin Gallactic's trips to suborbital space -- 62 miles above the Earth. I think this is really cool because it shows that we are going outside the boundaries and I honestly never thought traveling  this way would be possible. Even though the price ranges from $100 000 to $ 200 000 per ticket I  think it is a big step and perhaps prices will go down eventually as more companies start doing it and the clientele grows.

"I remember thinking how strange it was that after man had conquered the moon, we appeared to have given up afterwards," said King, who built and sold his Clockworks International software company during the booming 1990s. "I think a lot of people imagined there would have been more progress in terms of space flight."