August 21, 2022
Why this professor is using $50,000 of his retirement savings to realize his childhood dream and fly into space
BUSINESS INSIDER - Growing up, Chris Cokinos recalls huddling close to the television set and using an old-fashioned clunky tape recorder to record the news, which included everything from the Apollo missions to updates from Skylab, NASA's first space station. Decades later, the University of Arizona creative writing professor no longer has to imagine it: he'll be taking a flight into the Earth's stratosphere with one of the more affordable space tourism operators, World View.