Do you think this is history repeating itself?

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These days a number of very rich people travel to the ISS for a holiday in space. They spent about US$25 million per trip.

Do you think this is history repeating itself?

For example, back in the old days when airplanes were still in their infancy, flying was a novelty. Not many people had the privilege to fly, let alone travel overseas. So those who flew were usually very rich. It was only later on when people become more affluent that flying and travelling become commonplace.

Likewise, even still earlier, travelling by ships to long distances were also a novelty and not many people had the privilege to sail the oceans in a liner. It was also later when people become more affluent and flying become more common that it was no longer a novelty.

Do you think one day people will also become more affluent so that travelling into space is no longer a novelty but something commonplace and part of daily life?
 
Yeah eventually it may happen that there will be intercontinental flights flying so high basically they will be in space.
Space flight as such in the sci-fi movies is a very very far future because we don't have anywhere to go in a reachable distance. So Moon travel, Mars travel etc may come in hundreds of years if humanity don't give it up.
We would need a breaktrough or two in science especially in physics to understand gravity better. I think that is the key to the long distance space flights.
If we could make an engine working similar or based on the gravitational forces we could make much faster spaceships what could "warp" the spacetime like in the sci-fi movies..
 
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