We don’t know about any of you, but last summer we got pretty excited about the race for the future — that of privately funded and manned space travel. The showdown for the $10 million Ansari X Prize, which culminated in the victory of Burt Rutan’s SpaceShipOne, was a welcome distraction from the daily grind. Instead of worrying about an endless inbox of unreturned e-mails, we worried about whether the The Da Vinci team had…