Call me
When a private company's spaceship has an actual DESTINATION to achieve.
I know a number of them claim to have actual destinations in mind -
a private space station, the Moon - but I have also seen plenty of
such companies make similar promises and then disappear. I'll settle
for Earth orbit, even, but $120K for a brief suborbital flight? You can
climb Mt. Everest for about $100K, but at least there is a real sense
of accomplsihment afterwards because you touched something tangible.
Until then, the government sponsored space programs have little to fear.