The most recent SpaceX launch delivered the Bigelow inflatable space habitat module to the ISS. The primary and crewless booster on that mission also successfully returned from suborbital flight and landed on the purpose-built barge. SpaceX competitor ULA has been launching classified payloads for years now, and that contract probably will next go to the lower-cost SpaceX, which will be reusing the smaller boosters it currently uses, while it introduces its Heavy version, and moves that into operational status. The present estimate on that is November of this year. The old STS launch pad, which is also the site used for Apollo launches, has received a long-delayed bit of work to remove the remaining large and obsolete chunks of the STS launch apparatus.
Costs of space trips could be as low as an Antarctica holiday (news search)
http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dAaxyi7mm9dc_1M69GSjf1A_eF5fM&authuser=0&ned=us
“Costs of space trips could be as low as an Antarctica holiday (news search)”
Hmm, there’s still more to do in Antarctica though... in space you’ll just be stuck in a tin can looking out the window for a few days. There is zero-G sex, though, I guess that might be worth the price of admission just to attempt, but I think it will be less fun than it sounds :)