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* In Creator/AAPessimal's ''{{Discworld}}'' and ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' crossover ''Fanfic/TheManyWorldsInterpretation'', * HEX, (via the Travelling Engine), makes it easy for the Roundworlders to experience the Discworld in small, well-escorted parties. Things still go wrong, especially when Sheldon twocks the Engine and randomly programs it in such a way that HEX has to spend time untangling things.Penny gets to be First Woman on the Moon. At first, she is not greatly impressed.

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* ''LyricalNanoha'' series is a bit vague about its cosmology but it seems that "dimension", "world", and "planet" mean the same thing in the setting. Spells like Dimensional Transfer are readily available to {{Magitek}} mages, and in ''NanohaViVid'', the heroes take a shuttle to another planet like one would take a bus to another town.

In context, it's not that bad; Historically, each of ChristopherColumbus' voyages didn't cost 20 million ''individually'', even adjusted for inflation[[note]]Please? [[WikiMagic Someone quote the cost of Columbus' voyages?]][[/note]] - and [[Creator/RobertAHeinlein once you reach orbit]], [[http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0603/Thougthexperiments.shtml you're halfway to anywhere]]. Once the infrastructure was in place, the original American immigrants made their journeys on ''personal funds'' - so there's no reason that the phenomenon shouldn't repeat itself by the 2050's so long as we get a "space Mayflower" by the 2020's. [[IWantMyJetpack Better get to work on that.]]

In context, it's not that bad; Historically, all of ChristopherColumbus' voyages ''combined'' didn't cost 20 million, even adjusted for inflation[[note]]Please? [[WikiMagic Someone quote the cost of Columbus' voyages?]][[/note]] - and [[Creator/RobertAHeinlein once you reach orbit]], [[http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0603/Thougthexperiments.shtml you're halfway to anywhere]]. Once the infrastructure was in place, the original American immigrants made their journeys on ''personal funds'' - so there's no reason that the phenomenon shouldn't repeat itself by the 2050's so long as we get a "space Mayflower" by the 2020's. [[IWantMyJetpack Better get to work on that.]]

In context, it's not that bad; Historically, each of ChristopherColumbus' voyages ''alone'' didn't cost 20 million - and [[Creator/RobertAHeinlein once you reach orbit]], [[http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0603/Thougthexperiments.shtml you're halfway to anywhere]]. Once the infrastructure was in place, the original American immigrants made their journeys on ''personal funds'' - so there's no reason that the phenomenon shouldn't repeat itself by the 2050's so long as we get a "space Mayflower" by the 2020's. [[IWantMyJetpack Better get to work on that.]]

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In context, it's not that bad; Historically, all four of ChristopherColumbus' voyages ''combined'' didn't cost 20 million - and [[Creator/RobertAHeinlein once you reach orbit]], [[http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0603/Thougthexperiments.shtml you're halfway to anywhere]]. Once the infrastructure was in place, the original American immigrants made their journeys on ''personal funds'' - so there's no reason that the phenomenon shouldn't repeat itself by the 2050's so long as we get a "space Mayflower" by the 2020's. [[IWantMyJetpack Better get to work on that.]]

* In the {{Foundation}} series, travel between planets throughout the galaxy is fairly easy and accessible to most people in the Galactic Empire.

* ''Film/Gattaca'' has the eponymous company launching several spacecraft a day, including one to Titan, and is in no way implied to get the only company in the business.

* ''CowboyBebop'' has this, with the constantly broke protagonists nevertheless able to afford to operate an interplanetary fishing(!?) ship. This is facilitated by hyperspace, however.

* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' has this, as TheVerse is confirmed to take place in one large, multi-star system.

* In AlastairReynolds' novels, inter''stellar'' travel is very arduous, as he is strict about there being no FTL travel in his stories. However, inter''planetary'' travel is portrayed as relatively casual.

* Slowly seen coming about in ArthurCClarke's [[TheSpaceOdysseySeries Space Odyssey]] series. 2001 A Space Odyssey has the first manned mission ever to Saturn (retconned to Jupiter in the rest of the series to match the film), by 2016, the third book, interplanetary travel is evidently much more common, with colonies or outposts on several planets and moons and book opens with the protagonist as a guest on a luxury commercial cruise to a comet. By 3001, interplanetary travel is fairly routine.

->Eternal Father, King of birth, who didst create the heaven and earth!
->And bid the planets and the sun, their own appointed orbits run!
->O hear us when we seek thy grace, for those who soar through outer space.