Quote:I fear that the private sectors race to space tourism will end in a lot of casualties initially. Hopefully private space flight is a real thing during my children's lifetimes. 

 

Watching the Apollo mission documentary today, I was reminded that beating Russia to the moon was the motivation behind getting there.

 

Without private sector competition, there would be no progress on this as well, unfortunately.

 

Perhaps China or Russia will step in again, and our leadership doesn't allow them to be first this time?  This will be interesting to watch.

 

Something I'd either forgotten or did not know... because of the pace of the race, when we launched men for the moon, it was the first time the USA had launched humans on that platform of craft.

 

Amazing.  Not only that it was greenlit to begin with, but that overall it was a success as well.

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