Back at the Writing Thing

I am trying to get back to writing that darn Analog story. I want to take 'footsteps into the future', and see where this gets me.

So, a few years from now there are more people in orbit, doing more things. An order of magnitude would be about twenty stations and facilities (the ISS and the current Chinese space station counting as two), less than a hundred but more than fifty people at any given time. From five hundred (roughly five hundred people have been to orbit and back so far) to five thousand people having ever been in space implies a high rotation, most of them being rich tourists but a lot of them also being working astronauts. Five hundred over the course of a year is just ten a week, though, still far less than the high volume heavy lift on demand capacity we can expect from the comedy team of Bezos and Musk...