Thread: CEV to be made commercially available
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Old November 23rd 05, 01:38 AM posted to sci.space.policy,sci.space.history
Rand Simberg
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Default CEV to be made commercially available
On 22 Nov 2005 14:10:44 -0800, in a place far, far away,
made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
way as to indicate that:

No, no, Scott -- this is the core of what you have wrong. The public
doesn't care a fig about HERO-ASTRONAUTS unless there is a hint of
blood and gore (a bit like NASCAR). What VG, XCOR, Bigelow are selling
is PERSONAL SPACE TRAVEL, and quite a few more people are interested in
that.


Here's your problem: the public tends to identify more with astronauts
than bajillionaires.

What difference does it make whether or not the public identifies with
bajillionaires?

Simple: the claim here was that people don't care about astronauts,
they care about "personal space travel." "PST" is all about
bajillionaires, and will be for a while. But astronauts... people like.

Again, so what? People do care about personal space travel, if
they're the ones personally space traveling. Those who can afford it
will do so and build the industry, and it doesn't matter what the rest
of them think.