Will Space Taxis Be A Reality In 30 To 40 Years For Common Man ?

Taxis To The Outer Space : A New Beginning. 

ON 15 THIS  MONTH, ANOTHER KIND OF HISTORY CREATED.

SPACEX OWNED BY ELON MUSK SENT FALCON 9 ROCKET TO OUTER  SPACE FROM Cape Canaveral for its first fully operational mission—54 years, to the day, after U.S. astronauts Jim Lovell and Buzz Aldrin splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean northeast of Turks and Caicos after a nearly four-day, 59-orbit mission in their Gemini 12 spacecraft. Their safe landing served as the perfect capstone to the Gemini program, a series of 10 flights viewed as essential dress rehearsals for getting astronauts to and from the moon.

But the success of the Gemini program was as much about hardware as it was about exploration. Those 10 flights, under- taken over the course of 20 months (or factored out to one crewed mission every eight weeks), sent astronauts into space with a reg- ularity unimaginable just a few years earlier.

SpaceX is aiming to achieve a similar gas-up-and-go capability— and in some ways it already has, with more than 100 launches in

its various fleet of rockets since 2008. But only two so far have been crewed: the current four-person mission, which successfully docked at the International Space Station (ISS) a day later, and a first, experimental one, which carried two astronauts to the ISS back in May. Because space-station crews stay aloft for six months at a time, there’s no need for the company to match Gemini’s pace. But with crew members’ lives on the line, it is very much aiming for the same reliability.

Mind it it was December 17, 1903, when Right Brothers were in air in their maiden flight, who thought at that time that even a commoner will start traveling by plane after 60-70 years. Who knows that traveling to outer space will be a reality to a common man within 30 to 49 years because technology is now much robust than 1903.