Is Space Tourism Finally Within Our Reach?
Private space travel companies are democratizing the industry and widening humanity’s potential reality.
Now seems like the perfect time to book a one-way ticket to space. Honestly, almost anywhere would do. Maybe there’s another dimension?
It’s been an uncomfortable (read: nightmarish) few weeks since Donald Trump entered the White House, and scientific research has been among the many vital American institutions under siege.
The administration’s decidedly anti-science bent has inspired its own resistance movement, replete with a planned Earth Day Science March and several alt Twitter accounts, including @RogueNASA, rallying citizens to fight back.
But while there is plenty to fear when it comes to the denigration of scientific discovery, space travel may actually not be one of the casualties of our new fascist regime. There have been murmurs about NASA possibly going back to the moon (never mind that this glorious journey will likely come at the expense of climate change research budgets), and our chances of going to space thankfully aren’t limited to the…
