Towards an All-Inclusive Space Culture

To me, space has always symbolized the future of humankind. What exactly that future looks like, I’m not sure. But I sure like dreaming about it!

I believe that space is a place for all people, no matter what. And that given the resources, people will do whatever they want in space. Whether that’s making love in zero-gravity (a shameless plug for my new book, Sex in Space), or creating cool new space products and structures, is one’s personal choice.

So, when I read an article late last Thursday afternoon about Stephen Hawking – the great space thinker – dropping a big hint to the folks over at Virgin Galactic – I cheered. And then to learn that the company is actually talking with Hawking about getting him into space – another cheer! The fact that the space culture that exists now is being forced to consider all aspects of traveling into space – from food, to fashion, to sex, to persons with disabilities, is very telling. It appears that we’re at a turning point. (Yeah, I know, yet another “turning point.”) Space is for all people – not just those prime specimens who become government-paid space travelers.

Now if we can just get the cost of space travel down to Earth, space will soon be a place where everyone can be themselves and pursue their own personal passions.