My highest upvoted comment[0] was a thought I had reading an article by the New York Times: "Space Tourism Isn't Frivolous, or Impossible". This was around the

My highest upvoted comment[0] was a thought I had reading an article by the New York Times: "Space Tourism Isn't Frivolous, or Impossible". This was around the time that Virgin Galactic and NASA/Orbital Sciences had their tragic accidents. I basically said that spaceflight is where the airline industry used to be; rough around the edges, expensive, inherently dangerous. But the airline industry today is safe and inexpensive compared to how it was back in the day. Spaceflight is still at a young stage so unfortunately I will say that the Virgin Galactic tragedy, and the NASA/Orbital Science launch failure will not be the last accidents to come. In fact, we will need more accidents to understand where we are going wrong. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8555643 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8555643