Recently Alcestis "Cooky" Oberg wrote a great opinion editorial piece on space tourism and commercial space which got national visibility in USA Today newspaper (read by many business travelers). She allowed Keith Cowing at NASA Watch to reprint the article on his web site:

"Who needs NASA? Private sector can do it cheaper"

The word about the progress in space tourism is getting out to mainstream audiences. With some early sucesses, doubts about space tourism will become faint echos of a distant era fading into the history books.