Everybody wants to go to the stratosphere these days

CNN has an article on China entering the Space Tourism race:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/10/13/china.space.tourists.reut/index.html?eref=yahoo

Along with all the other Sapce tourism events these last 6 months it seems, that we a re in the middle of a new period for Space travel, still limited by govenment institutions and economical barriers, but the very amount of projects going on are important to the development and testing of new technologies that might one day make cheap, widely proliferated Space travel a reality.