That's good to hear. I still wonder where the profitability will come from to maintain a market for advances in space travel. Satellite deployment, intercontinental travel, entertainment, 20-mile-high club, Jabba the Hut?
We already have an example in manned space travel. Space tourism has been suggested as a "someday" appliction for years, but NASA never took the idea seriously because a Shuttle flight costs at least a half billion dollars. Not even a trial lawyer or a BMW mechanic can afford one-seventh of that. Meanwhile, the Russians run a leaner program. If a tourist comes forward with $20 million, that pays for one whole Soyuz launch. They have just signed up their third tourist, a Japanese ad executive - and they're making money on a manned program for the first time ever.