Space commercialization is well under way.

This morning, a private company delivered supplies to a remote outpost, including fresh fruit, a rare luxury for this particular outpost.

That's because this outpost is the International Space Station, currently the only manned space station in orbit, and that private company was Space X. While this cannot be said to be a fully private venture since the contract was paid with taxpayer dollars, it does show that commercial space flight has reached new heights.

And many of Space X's new contacts will be fully private. They plan to deliver the Bigelow Commercial Space Station to orbit in 2014, and to provide the majority of transport to the station, all with their existing Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft. An unmanned Dragon, atop a Falcon 9 is what Space X used to deliver fresh fruit to the ISS crew.

Bigelow plans for access to it's commercial station for $26.5 million aboard a Dragon, and rental rates as low as $25 million for two months. At only $51.5 million for a two month stay in space, the Bigelow Space Station may well trigger a space population boom, indeed, Bigelow is prepared to build about ten of them, and there's no reason they can't be placed outside of Earth Orbit, affordable space stations over the Moon? Over Mars maybe? The possibilities really are endless.