When do you think space travel will become affordable to the average person? Fifty years? A hundred years? Short of becoming a NASA astronaut/cosmonaut/taikonaut, currently the only way for the average person to get into space is via the Russian Space Agency at a cost of $30 million a seat. There are a number of private companies that are developing space tourism projects but projected costs are thought to be $200,000 per passenger and the trip would last mere hours. I'm 26 years of age and I'd like to think that somtime during my life, space travel will be affordable to the masses.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/07/18/space.tourists.ap/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_tourism
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/07/18/space.tourists.ap/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_tourism