This is what we should be focusing on, not these ridiculous pie-in-the-sky dreams of planetary colonization within the next thousand years. We first need to perfect transporting people from Earth's surface into space in a way that doesn't require months or years of training.
Private spaceflight company Axiom Space raises $130 million to create private space station
France Nouvelles Nouvelles
Houston-based Axiom Space just raised $130 million as it seeks to build private space stations orbiting earth.