THE LIBRARY

Now that Bezos, Musk and Branson have each put billions into private space ventures, sending wealthy tourists to the Kármán line in bespoke space planes and supplying NASA with rockets, the future’s pretty clear to the rest of us Earth-bound mortals. We can all imagine a future where we, as a spacefaring species, will be able to jump on a sightseeing tour around Mars, or stay in a lunar resort with the family and don a spacesuit, exiting the dome habitat and visiting a UNESCO space heritage site like the 1969