Here’s a fun little Easter Egg: By entering the airport code for Spaceport America into the “From” field on Kayak.com, and 50m (the number of miles at which the thermosphere starts) into the “To” field, you can uncover flights into space.

This was posted on mashable.com and I thought it was interesting as a possible sign of things to come. Virgin Galactic doesn’t have the spaceships to fulfill these orders yet, but they are working hard to get there. The price for one of these flights is $200,000 – a steal for a little weightless view of this big ball of mud we call home. 
At that price, I think I’ll be staying on the ground and to be honest the idea of a quick ride into space and back isn’t terribly appealing to me. I would love to see either longer orbital flights or perhaps a private venture to put some kind of space station into orbit where people could visit like a giant space hotel. Now that would be awesome and well worth the price.
Thanks to Twitter and TV and the internet I think there are times when I get too caught up in the mundane functions of daily life fed to me from all over the world. Shootings in California, a flood in Australia, political unrest Haiti, etc. Once and a while it’s a nice break to put my brain in neutral and think about a trip to an orbiting hotel, or a spaceflight around the Earth. Being a big Star Trek fan those things don’t seem too far fetched, but I imagine they will be more likely to happen in my kids or grandkids lifetimes more so than in mine. 
It’s still fun to think about and it’s pretty amazing that I could (in theory) book a ticket at a website for a ticket to ride into space. Makes booking a plane ride to anywhere seem pretty boring.