Alexander sat strapped into his seat within the space shuttle, feeling nervous and excited about soon traveling through space.
In the year 2100, humanity had made a lot of progress towards space travel technology being available to the public.
In fact, space travel within the solar system had been democratized, allowing many corporations and governments to send shuttles throughout the system at much lower costs and risks than in earlier history.
This quickly led to the colonization of the Moon, then Mars. However, this "democratization" ended up mostly benefitting the richest in the world. Those rich enough to control all space-faring interests had already taken advantage of space travel for a long time, having gained the nickname of the "Celestials."
