Flying

  Have you ever looked up at the night sky, watching satellites streak across the darkness, and wondered if regular commercial civilians will ever be able to experience the breathtaking curvature of the Earth from the edge of space? We have all grown up watching science fiction transform into reality, yet the idea of booking a ticket on a rocket plane for a quick weekend hop into the upper atmosphere still feels like something reserved for billionaire astronauts. A colleague of mine recently attended an international aerospace expo in London, listening to industry leaders debate the future of supersonic and suborbital transport. While many dismissed commercial space tourism as an expensive, decades-away novelty, recent developments point to a much faster timeline. In fact, right now, strategic agreements centered around spaceports in the United Kingdom are quietly laying the groundwork to turn daily rocket plane travel space experiences from a distant dream into an acces...