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Achieving Something That Has Never Existed In Manned Spaceflight And That Is High Volume And Public Access.

There Was A Wonderful Little Short Four-year Time Period When Marvelous Things Happened. It Started In 1908, When The Wright Brothers Flew In Paris, And Everybody Said, 'ooh, Hey, I Can Do That.' There's Only A Few People That Have Flown In Early 1908. In Four Years, 39 Countries Had Hundreds Of Airplanes, Thousands Of Pilots.

In The Coming Era Of Manned Space Exploration By The Private Sector, Market Forces Will Spur Development And Yield New, Low-cost Space Technologies. If The History Of Private Aviation Is Any Guide, Private Development Efforts Will Be Safer, Too.

Within 25 Years, Virtual Reality Meetings Will Be Essentially Transparent To Being There In Person. Once We Can Do This, The Idea Of Climbing Into An Aircraft, And Burning Up Huge Quantities Of Fossil Fuels To Propel Our Bodies And Briefcases Full Of Papers, Will Seem Absolutely Backward.

Usually The Wacky People Have The Breakthroughs. The Smart People Dont.