Rand Simberg wrote:

Again, so what? People do care about personal space travel, if
they're the ones personally space traveling.

And they won;t be.

Those who can afford it
will do so and build the industry, and it doesn't matter what the rest
of them think.


WRONG. The point under discussion here was not whether the space
tourism industry will get going, but whether the voters will get bored
with ESAS. So it matters greatly what "the rest of them" - which
almost certainly includes YOU, Rand - think.