The only problem with space is that its dubbed the last frontier for a reason. The wast amount of it is tremendous and cannot be compared to anything humans have ever ventured into before.
I would guess that in 30 years from now we can start looking at some sort of tourism in space, before that I am afraid that our technology and political will for expanding into something we cant get a return in profit of for the next 10 years is not going to change.
Unless NASA/ESA discovers huge amount of valuable material on the moon, or we get a joint venture from todays billionaires and companies we wont see neither space tourism or space mining in the next 10 years.
But it would be a good idea to start collecting money in a fund for aiding companies, or using the money to give out as a carrot to the front runners in the space development sector.
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