What We Thought This Decade Would Be Like Vs. Reality

We’d Take Vacations To The Moon On Commercial Space Flights

In the 1950s, it was thought that space travel would be available to everyone in the new millennium. Over here in 2018, we still haven’t put a man on Mars (though Elon Musk is totally working on it).

Space travel obviously isn’t widely available to the average person like a commercial flight. Citizens of Earth can’t go into space without some serious training (and some serious funding – just ask Lance Bass). A company called Space Adventures offers multi-millionaires a chance to hitch aboard a Russian flight to the International Space Station, but over the course of eight years, they’ve only brought seven people. The company also offered $150 million translunar flights, and two people took them up on it in 2011. It’s unclear whether the mission was squashed or if they’re still training. Either way, that’s a lot of money and a lot of effort making it a lofty dream for most.