IPFS News Link • Future Predictions
Gallery: 10 Best Jobs Of The Future
• popsci.comJob: Fly shuttles to space.
Hiring: 2020
Trend: Virgin Galactic plans to launch the first commercial
suborbital spaceflights by 2012 for about $200,000 a seat. With
competition from other companies, that price could soon drop low enough
for daily shuttle service to outer space, the moon and asteroids for
tourism, mining and science. Commercial pilots will regain the mystique
they had in the ’60s as thousands of them strap in for the stars.