The year 2025 puts us one quarter of the way through the 21st century. We'll spend the year looking back at some of the amazing advances we've experienced. In this episode: privatized space travel.

(SOUNDBITE OF SCOTT JOPLIN'S "MAPLE LEAF RAG") INSKEEP ... Russia's Soyuz capsules and American space shuttles. BYRNE: The U.S. government operated the space shuttle. It was like NASA's ...

Community leaders across the state have also come together to address another childcare challenge—the difficulty in coordinating transportation ... who struggle to shuttle their kids between ...