San Diego travel agent Craig Buck is boldly booking voyages to the Final Frontier. Fresh from training at the Kennedy Space Center and an accredited space agent for Richard Branson’s new Virgin Galactic, Buck has made the first West Coast sale of a two-and-a-half-hour suborbital flight from the Mojave Spaceport. Billionaire Los Angeles real estate investor Edward Roski, who has climbed Mt. Everest and submerged the Atlantic for a tour of the Titanic shipwreck, is paying full-fare, $200,000, for his 2010 trip.

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Best known for owning San Diego Office Interiors and extensive community involvement, Vince and Cathy Mudd have gotten into gaming in a big way, opening the Mudd Club, a high-end gaming center. Located at 13510 Sabre Springs Parkway off of Poway Road, Mudd Club offers a host of digital diversions, from traditional arcade games to those that use personal computers and consoles like Xbox 360 and PS3. There’s also VIP and party rooms and plenty of possibilities for business outings. The regulars are serious about their gaming. While the company’s Web site is muddclub.net, for fun, search for Mudd Club online and read the intense discussion on the equipment and whether the $2 admission fee is excessive. Vince Mudd’s favorite game: Mindball.

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Through April 24, the median price of a resale Downtown condo for the month was $536,500, down $92,500, or 14.7 percent, from $629,000 in April 2006, reports Realtor Lew Breeze, who tracks such info at sdcondo.com. With seven days left in the month, the number of condos sold (35) already had matched the total sold the full month of April 2006.

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Postage rates for businesses take a complicated jump on May 14. More information is available at usps.com, the U.S. Postal Service’s Web site, but you are probably best off talking about it with your favorite mail house. Those who aggressively presort their mail get treated lightly. Also, shape now matters in determining first-class rates.

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The Trump Organization and Irongate announced another project in the Trump Ocean Resort in Baja — a 24-story, 180-unit condo tower containing studios and one- and two-bedroom suites with prices starting in the mid-$300,000s. It’s called the Spa Tower. Developed as a partnership between The Trump Organization and Irongate, a Los Angeles-based real estate development and investment company, Spa Tower follows on the sales success of the property’s initial offering in December when more than $122 million in resort real estate was sold in one day. “The Spa Tower will bring an unprecedented spa experience to the West Coast of Mexico and exceed all expectations of luxury real estate ownership,” says Donald Trump.

Trump Ocean Resort in Baja.

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The 1980s S&L debacle that swallowed locally owned Home Fed and Great American (the former San Diego Savings & Loan Association) has not compounded interest. The FDIC announced it is terminating its Resolution Trust Corp. receivership of the two former financial bulwarks that collapsed in a bang and whose story now ends in the quiet whimper of a simple legal notice.

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The Westfield Mission Valley shopping center is parting out the old Montgomery Ward Auto Center for a new 15,000-square-foot center addition. California Pizza Kitchen, Corner Bakery Cafe, Robeks Fruit Smoothies, Pei Wei Asian Diner and Jared Jewelers have signed leases to open by December, says Jim Bess, leasing manager.

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It’s all systems go May 26 for a flotilla of exhibit additions aboard the USS Midway Museum along the Embarcadero. Among the new areas open for touring will be the captain’s cabin and admiral’s living quarters, war room and command center — as well as the brig. Added to the air wing on deck the carrier are a World War II-era SBD Dauntless dive bomber and 1950s photo reconnaissance F9F-8 Cougar. Among many special Memorial Day weekend events will be a flight-deck, black-tie gala installation of the Midway American Patriot Award to Bob Hope May 26. The museum is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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The Urban Land Institute San Diego/Tijuana District Council will present its third annual Smart Growth Awards program at 7:30 a.m. on June 12 at Downtown’s House of Blues. The keynote speaker will be Richard Jackson, UC Berkeley adjunct professor of environmental health sciences and author of “Urban Sprawl and Public Health.” The awards recognize planning and design achievement as well as visionaries helping to advance the principles of smart growth. The institute defines smart growth as development that is economically sound, environmentally friendly and supportive of community livability. The cost is $50 for members, $60 for nonmembers, $40 for students and $65 for those who pay at the door. To register, call (800) 321-5011. The deadline to register is June 7.

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San Diego Harbor Excursion is offering Padres fans use of its water taxi from Coronado to the Fifth Avenue Dock, a short walk to the ballpark. A five-minute ride, the water taxi boards pre-game at the Coronado Ferry Landing Dock and post-game at the Fifth Avenue Dock at the foot of the Convention Center. Shuttle service to the park begins an hour prior to each game and continues for 30 minutes after the game begins. Service back to Coronado Ferry Landing begins two hours after the start of each game and continues for 45 minutes after the game ends. Parking is free at the Coronado Ferry Landing and the water taxi is $7 each way. Children 12 and under are free with a paid adult. More is at sdhe.com.

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Pfizer La Jolla in 2006 donated $600,000 in equipment and $650,000 in cash to local causes while Pfizer Foundation made two grants totaling $100,000. “We are pleased to have achieved a record year in philanthropy, exceeding the $600,000 contributed to local causes in the previous year,” says Kitty Mackey, senior v.p. of Pfizer Global Research and Development and director of the La Jolla site.

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The San Diego Venture Group’s fifth annual Venture Summit runs from 8 to 11:30 a.m. on June 6 at the Omni Hotel, 675 L St. The keynote breakfast speaker will be Josh Berman, co-founder and COO of MySpace.com, reputedly the No. 1 trafficked site on the Internet. The event will feature a life science panel and a technology panel, each with industry professionals. Cost is $25 for Venture Group members and $75 for nonmembers with reservations by the June 1 deadline. Registration information is at sdvg.org.

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Blokhaus Development has leased 56,000 square feet of office space at the historic Wonder Bread building at 171 14th St. between Imperial Avenue and L Street in the East Village and plans to sublease multiple spaces for occupancy starting in June. The property was renamed “WonderHaus.” The Wonder Bread building includes four contiguous structures that have been partially renovated, with individual tenant spaces varying in size from 1,000 square feet to more than 10,000 square feet, some with shared common areas. The owner is the Robert Sinclair and Jacqueline Sinclair Trust. Financial information was not disclosed. $1 million has been earmarked for building renovations.

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Dr. Carole Banka, associate professor and director of women’s health research at La Jolla Institute for Molecular Medicine, and Dr. Virginia Miller, professor of surgery, physiology and biomedical engineering at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine will present a May 15 public lecture on menopause myths, treatments and related women’s health concerns. Sponsored by Security Business Bank, the event at the Hyatt Regency La Jolla begins at 6 p.m. Cost is $30 in advance, $35 at the door. Details are at ljimm.org.

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The Children’s Museum is hosting a series of cocktail fund raisers through the summer to benefit its capital campaign. Called Campaign Cocktails, these events will be held the third Thursday of every month, alternating between Downtown’s Chive and Laurel restaurants. Local business leaders and San Diego experts will host each event. The cost to attend is $15 at the door and RSVPs are required. Contact chela@childrensmuseumsd.org for details.

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Adopt-A-Block, the program run by Scott Silverman’s Second Chance, is a great way to spend a well-organized day providing hands-on community improvement. The event and the related employment and resource fair is set for May 19. Volunteers get T-shirts and lunch. Organizers also can group people who volunteer from a business. Details are at secondchanceprogram.com.

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DK Hair in Hillcrest has been named by Salon Today as one of the nation’s 200 fastest-growing salons. Indeed, next month the shop owned by David Valencia and Kenneth Bradshaw more than doubles in size when it moves to 3785 Sixth Ave, Suite 100.

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The vintage ferryboat Berkeley should be awash in watercolors and other media in a specially assembled exhibit of maritime art for sale and view by the San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild from May 26 through Oct. 17. The Berkeley, the Star of India and the other ships of the Maritime Museum of San Diego are open 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. every day.

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Escondido City Hall rolls out the red carpet — literally — from 5 to 9 p.m. June 3 when the Downtown Business Association of Escondido hosts a black-tie event honoring the people and groups that most improved the city in 2006. “It will be a show exactly like the People’s Choice Awards,” promises the association’s Debra Rosen. Fox 6 entertainment reporter Ruben Galvan will host. Tickets are $90, which includes dinner catered by 150 Grand Café. City Hall is at 201 N. Broadway. To reserve seats, call the association at (760) 745-8877.

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Actor Edward James Olmos, the best starship officer not named “Kirk,” will keynote the county’s Vital Aging Conference 2007 on June 15. For the first time, the conference will be held in two locations: San Diego and Escondido. Olmos will talk about his role as the national spokesperson for the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation. On the gritty and critically acclaimed “Battlestar Galactica” television show, he plays the stoic, steely, conflicted Adm. William Adama. Information about the aging conference is at sharp.com/seniors. More about Battlestar is at scifi.com.

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Dolly Woo

La Jolla Music Society volunteer Dolly Woo will be the Gold Star honoree at the San Diego Performing Arts League’s annual Star Awards tribute to volunteers in the arts at 6 p.m. June 12 in the San Diego Marriott and Marina, 385 W. Harbor Drive. Tickets start at $50. For more, call the league at (619) 238-0700 or visit sandiegoperforms.com.