Gregory Olsen, a millionare and the third person to take a commercial trip into space, says he 's excited about the future of commercial space travel. Olsen bought his ticket at $20 million and ventured into space with Russian Federal Space Agency through the Virginia-based firm Space Adventures. Olsen says the experience was life changing and never goes a day without thinking about it.
President Obama has proposed a plan where commercial companies could focus on low-Earth orbit trips. Meanwhile, the space agency could focus on making trips to asteroids and Mars. NASA is currently experimenting with un-manned shuttles that are being sent into orbit. The company plans to modify the sattelites one day in order to carry people.
"When you fly over the Earth, there's no sign of life," Olsen said. "There's nothing to indicate that there's anything going on there – occasional jet trails, but other than that it just looks serene, perfect. When I was up there I just said, 'Wow, I'm the luckiest guy in the world to be able to see this.'" Hopefully one day soon more people will be able to experience what Olsen did.
Source: Yahoo News
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