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A message to space advocates

Few people are prepared to pay a significant fraction of a year's salary to be squeezed into a tiny box, risk their lives to technological failure, and be bounced across the globe, just to save a few hours.

Most of us can cope with it taking a day to change continents.

So sub-orbital transport has a VERY limited commercial future.

Full-orbit still has romance as a tourist destination, for a variety of reasons, but A-to-B travel is not a commercial reality in today's world.

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