From what we've learned and are continually learning from our extra terrestrial neighbors, we've been able to create technologies of our own that we've modeled from other races.
We've made aircraft and air flight advances extremely quickly within just over a century and we've modeled the working systems of space flight to work like the systems we've created with air flight.
Just like an airport, there's a space port: http://www.slcairport.com/ - http://spaceportamerica.com/
Just like airliners, there's spaceliners: http://delta.com - http://www.virgingalactic.com/
Just like aircraft, there's spacecraft: http://boeing.com - http://www.spacex.com/
