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		yurishimo 10 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NASA announces unprecedented return of sick ISS as... While I’m confident we will probably have large scale commercial spacecraft in my lifetime, I suspect I will be long retired by then. I’m 31. We need a decade of accident free autonomous launches before humans will line up in mass to visit space like a Carnival Cruise.

grvbck 10 days ago [–]

Don't dismiss the yearning for space/new frontiers/adventure that a lot of us have. If you offered tickets to the moon today for the price of a cruise, you would probably have people standing in line from Cape Canaveral to Tallahassee.

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