Space Travel

Fifty years ago, astronauts traveled to space in rockets designed, built, and maintained by NASA. Today, billionaires are enjoying journeys into low orbit on rockets they paid for. As private enterprise learns more about putting rockets and satellites into space, they're able to help NASA on its missions. The hope is that people will follow, possibly by 2025 or realistically by 2030. However, space travel is still a highly regulated and expensive endeavor, and it's unclear whether it will become more accessible to the General public in the near future.