As you might guess, if you've seen some of my shots from airplane windows, I like getting as close to Space as possible.

Which is why the whole idea of civilian space travel is one that turns me on. A lot.

So it's been fun talking to my old pal David Beaver, who has been busy helping launch the World Space Center in Raleigh.

The site offers many ways to get involved.

As I told David on the phone last week, I highly recommend getting a blog going around this thing. They have a bunch of other bases covered already. A new magazine. Connections to projects. But a blog would start rolling a snowball in a sphere where momentum and mass accumulation can happen fast.

I've offered to help. Maybe some of the rest of ya'll can too. Including folks more geographically proximal than I am.