Back in the 1950s the entertainer Jackie Gleason had a television show called “The Honeymooners” with Art Carney, Audrey Meadows and Joyce Randolph. Gleason, who played a city bus driver coined an expression whenever he and his wife Alice, played by Meadows got into a disagreement. That expression was, “One of these days Alice. One of these days, zoom. I’m gonna send you to the moon.” The line became synonymous with the show and the audience waited for the line with each episode.

Outside of a few Sci-fi enthusiasts, the thought of going to the moon was conceptually out of reach. But today, things are different. Since July 20, 1969 when Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, entrepreneurs have been planning to make space, the moon and planets beyond travel destinations.

The idea has spawned hundreds of proposals from established aerospace companies to hobbyists. Companies have sprung up with all kinds of ideas and methods for getting families beyond the stratosphere and back in one piece. Some of these have already sold tickets for future flights. The idea of a space vacation is pretty close to a reality and more than one person has hitched a ride to the International Space Station and before that the Russian MIR Station. So check out your travel agent for possibilities of an adventure of a lifetime. One day, you will get a call and then next, you will be in space.