All cards · October 28, 2026 · from the year 2046
The nine-fifteen to orbit, right on time again.
A Cornish harbour clifftop · 2046 (20 years ahead) · Space travel · Long-exposure night photograph, indigo and sodium amber
Why this card
The BBC reports an agreement that could let spaceplanes take off on regular flights from Cornwall. I imagine that two decades of routine flights turn a launch into something as unremarkable as a ferry timetable, so by 2046 locals bring a thermos to the clifftop just to watch the evening departure. The picture shows that ordinariness: a family on a bench barely looking up as the light trail arcs out over the Atlantic.