This seems to be making the news today:

http://www.deepspaceexpeditions.com/section5-press.html

it seems pretty exciting (if they pull it off) that private people can be flying around the moon in 3-5 years. They already make money out of sending people to the iss, so how long before more companies want a piece of the action?

Is this the start of the real space age (by real I mean the average person living/workign/holidaying in space)? Or will it never progress beyond a few billionares doing it before the novelty wears off and humanity calls it a day?

I think perhaps it will kickstart things, but only if the russians make money too because for things to get moving more space vehicles need to be built for other companies to use and probably this is beyond the resources of non-govermental organisations (Burt rutan et al are really only building low earth orbit stuff so there vehicles would be uselsss even for trips to the iss, let alone the moon). And the russians arent going to do this unless they make money out of it.

Only £100,000,000?

Might stick to Benidorm then :D

I think this is to tourism today what the jet plane was to it back in the 50's and 60's.

As professional spacemen prepare to go further afield (Mars), the more 'local' region of space will open up to the general public, very similar to Mount Everest in that it was a professional-only climb half a century ago.

After 2trips to the moon and back for a gal, its gets boring
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