"We happen to be alive at the moment when humanity starts leaving the planet."

New York Magazine - "Welcome to the Real Space Age"

"If the twentieth-century space race was about the might of the American government  the emerging 21st-century space age is about something perhaps even more powerful--the might of money."

"In New Mexico, workers are putting the finishing touches on the first of at least ten spaceports currently under construction around the world. More than 800 people have paid as much as $200,000 apiece to reserve seats on commercial flights into space."

Previously,
2011 Space Race