Looks like you kids will have the chance to go to space after all.

[link to www.popsci.com]

Boeing Will Launch Space Tourism Business, Lifting Off in 2015

Granted that was in 2010.

But a new posting today:

Boeing Workers Will Fly to ISS Aboard Their Company's New Spaceship

[link to www.popsci.com]

What is significant about this is that this is a company, not a nation, sending ships (then men) into orbit.

This is a huge leap in the direction of space exploration, exploitation and while tourism for civilians didn't become reality in my youth, it appears that you kids will be shot off into space.