A ten-day stay. it s moving right along. obviously, today is historic. it took multiple decades for you to become an astronaut. is it strange to think that one day any person who is willing to write a big enough check will also be able to travel to space, and why is that so important? well, right now, yes, it costs a lot of money to do that. but it s important to get this mission, this excitement of space off the ground, literally, in some ways because we re going to improve the technologies and drive the cost down further and further. and that s when access will become much more available for the everyday person. remember when we first started flying passengers on airlines, only the rich could afford it then, too. and it has to the infrastructure and the commercialization has to occur in order for the prices to come down. the competition to drive those ....