If you thought Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Richard Branson, and John Carmack were onto something, think again. ‘Zillionaire’ Robert T. Bigelow is fulfilling his childhood dream of putting people into space by building the first privately-owned space station. And he already has orbiting prototypes full of live critters to prove the concept: http://www.wired.com/science/space/magazine/15-11/ff_spacehotel. This is a really amazing and inspiring article.

Just think… only a few decades ago Sputnik made its first orbit around the Earth, Laika the dog went up into space, Yuri Gagarin did the same, followed by the US manned visits to the Moon. Who’s to say that a few decades from now our grandchildren won’t be able to book a trip to a space hotel on expedia and a flight there on kayak. This is really awesome stuff.