I had just joined a large investment bank and was in NYC for training when I heard that the XPrize flight had succeeded. Although finance has been my career, I

I had just joined a large investment bank and was in NYC for training when I heard that the XPrize flight had succeeded. Although finance has been my career, I grew up wanting to be an astronaut and closely follow space science. I also expected that suborbital manned tourism flights would become routine, and that in time SpaceShipOne and similar designs would be scaled up to reach orbit. Although the latter didn't happen, I am glad that SpaceX came along and made reusing (!) rockets that land at their own launch pads (!!) routine. It is not impossible that I will someday ride Starship or a descendant to orbit.