Virgin Galactic has launched the worlds first commercial space launch vehicle.
Named the Enterprise (Everyone under the sun will call their spacecraft this! LOL) it is soon to depart from a new spaceport in New Mexico and take, initially, the lucky few into space.
I doubt it will be very long, 20 years, before we all do this once in a lifetime holiday, probably to a local-ish spaceport in our own continent.
Now as I write these words I realise that very quickly they will become dated and in many ways seem ridiculous.
After all if you look at some of the images below, you will see them in the same light. What once was new and cutting edge has become quaint and in some cases just plain (plane LOL) ridiculous 
London has the busiest airport in the world, Heathrow but once upon a time it was little more than tents in a field. Then came larger multi-propeller aircraft which were a revolution in themselves and of course the Jet revolution. London also became one of the few airports to surpass even the jet age with supersonic travel and Concorde.
So, New Mexico is the home of the worlds first commercial spaceport. One wonders if it will be a flash in the pan as space travel begins or if it will become the next Rotterdam or Singapore and one of the worlds leading ports as we venture outwards?
How ridiculous will these pictures seem in another 100 years time? Only two tiny 6 person spacecraft, what will be in the air then? One day even going to the moon will seem tacky and out of fashion. Maybe even travel as we know it will be out of date and we will be teleporting everywhere? Progress, exciting isn’t it.
