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True, supersonic travel was an expensive dead end. Like many expensive boondoggles it was a state enterprise. It even had a little cold war by proxy motivation built into the three major supersonic projects (Russia, US, Brits/France).
The reasons why super sonic travel didn't take off are complex. Sonic boom legislation and increased fuel efficiency from high bypass engines being the two major factors.. The europeans started earlier and saw the writing on the wall but suffered from sunk cost fallacy so they continued to "market" (manufacturing the minimum amount possibel and selling them to state backed airlines). Russians did a bad job at copying the concord and ended up transporting mail in theirs for a while, crashed one at the Paris airshow. Americans put less government money behind theirs and Boeing realized it was a loser and bailed out after making a full size wooden model. As far as these rockets go, they get plenty of Gov't money so they aren't exactly free market enterprises. They do have some elements of competition though so if demand holds up the costs will come down. $450k looks like a good deal to me.
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This is just the beginning. I am sure it will get cheaper and attainable for many more. Hopefully I will be able to go in retirement (20 years)!
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No, my point is that there's limit to the trickle down effect, and I don't see rides into space becoming common for poor/homeless people for a very long time. Probably never.
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This is fine.
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Perhaps, but they have smart phones.
Smart phones basically require these kinds of crazy huge money projects for their core technologies. So I would say the trickle down is real.
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I don't get it. I am not trying to be an *** here, I really don't understand your comments relation to the picture.
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How long do you think it will be before a $45,000 USD space trip comes down to the price of a $1,000 smartphone?
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I paid $3200 for a 50" TV in 2004. The $350 one I'm watching now (that I bought in 2017) is much nicer. There are hard limits on the costs such as the size of the vehicle, gravity, and the availability of trips. Cars used to be a novelty for the wealthy. Henry Ford changed that with assembly lines and simplified designs, but the ground was broken by the few with money.
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It will not get enormously cheaper. Putting a mass into orbit requires a certain amount of velocity for the rocket and a large amount of energy and relies upon using a fuel and oxidizer in vey large quantities. You can miniaturize a Satellite, but not a human. It will always be hugely wasteful and selfish from a resources and global warming perspective to do this a tourist. I have zero issues with space flight for scientific and other purposes that serve the public as a whole but for a joy ride...
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I'll give an example. We spent billions on the GPS system for submarine navigation and ICBM aiming. That doesn't mean we all got submarines and missiles, we did all benefit though. Same can be said for a lot of these big projects, both gov't and private.
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They should sell one way tickets. SPP
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