Remember when in the early 2000s space tourism was the next big

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>>8345888
A few events come to mind.

2002: One of the people from Nsync was going to do it, media got hyped, then he didn't do it.

Later in 2002: Mark Shuttleworth paid Russia to take him to the ISS. NASA and every other country that helped on it weren't happy about their project turning into a space hotel run by Russia.

2003: Space shuttle Columbia exploded.

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Remember in the early 2000s when they said increased education and the spread of the the Internet would eventually result in everybody becoming secular/atheist? Whatever happened to that?

>>8345888
a couple accidents reminded people that space travel is still dangerous as fuck and that astronauts are a special kind of crazy brave.

>>8345916
feeding niggers happened to that.

it's a classic case of feels vs reals.

>>8345917
It isn't so much space travel being dangerous as it is the shuttle being a death trap and the most egregious example of the sunk cost fallacy in history

>>8345916
>Whatever happened to that?
Increased education didn't happen :P

>>8345916
I seriously doubt that Muslim project.

virgin galactic was the only company promising that and they failed.

>>8345888
The Russians jacked up the price once NASA started buying seats and no one in the free market was able to fill the void.