With Any Luck, By The Time Nasa's

In 12 Or 15 Years, There Will Be Routine, Affordable Space Tourism Not Just In The U.s. But In A Lot Of Countries.

We Didn't Have Practical Model Rockets In The '50s. The Ones We Made Were Very Dangerous And The Kids That Played With Them Didn't Have All Their Fingers, And Sometimes Were Blind In One Eye.

I Spent About Seven Years During The Vietnam War Flight-testing Airplanes For The Air Force. And Then I Went In And I Had A Lot Of Fun Building Airplanes That People Could Build In Their Garages. And Some 3,000 Of Those Are Flying. Of Course, One Of Them Is Around-the-world Voyager.

Nasa's Myriad Failures Are In Many Ways The Natural Consequence Of A Catastrophic Combination Of Bureaucracy, Monopoly, And A Calcifying Aversion To The Kind Of Risk Necessary For Innovation.

Since Yuri Gagarin And Al Shepard's Epoch Flights In 1961, All Space Missions Have Been Flown Only Under Large, Expensive Government Efforts. By Contrast, Our Program Involves A Few, Dedicated Individuals Who Are Focused Entirely On Making Spaceflight Affordable.