The ultimate adventure ride could be coming soon to an airport near you. It's called "Skylon" and the special aircraft is being developed for commercial use to carry tourists out into space within the next ten years.
Human beings will always be explorers. We’ve pretty well surveyed our planet, our tiny blue dot, for answers and only found more questions. Why are we here? How did we get here? What does it mean?
But here’s the thing: we won’t be heading to the stars in a rocket. Rockets are a terrible way of getting to space.