If you grew up like me, watching the Jetsons jet around in their aircrafts, commuting to work in their flying hovercars, flying them on air highways, and spend a holiday on the Moon, or Mars, or Saturn then this might jerk a tear from your eyes.
Starting in 2014, space tourism will begin to spread its wings in the United States, rocket planes and spaceships to carry passengers beyond the atmosphere, similar to the suborbital hops taken by Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil “Gus†Grissom in 1961, are being built and tested, with commercial flight services targeted to begin in 2013 or 2014.
Another perk will be commercial flights that will take passengers from one location to another on Earth, but that will be flying at an altitude of 62 miles, allowing the passengers to experience weightlessness and giving them a view of the Earth’s curvature and of black space.
Will I go to space? Tragically not. I don’t have the physical fortitude for that kind of trip (read I’m a wimp, I can barely stand on a chair because I’m afraid of heights…) but I’m sure they’ll have plenty of customers. George Nield, associate administrator for the FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation also testified that they expect commercial space tourism to take up to a 1 billion $ marked within 10 years.
from The UberReview