I WAS lucky enough to have been born in the middle of the 20th century which saw the birth of modern technology.

Moon landings, computers, worldwide television and modern medcine but the news that a British company plans to build an aircraft that can take off from normal airports for flights in space thrills me.

It would be lovely to come back in a couple of hundred years to see people travelling to the Moon and Mars just as we fly to other countries now.

PADDY MAXWELL, Lordshill, Southampton.