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Space has been through several periods of rapid growth alternating with stagnation. Sputnik I through Apollo 11 was a rocket ride, figuratively as well as literally. The rest of the 1970s was flat, followed by growth spurts and flat spells during the Shuttle and ISS programs. Since the Shuttle stopped flying, until this year space seemed stuck on stop. Suddenly things are moving again, rapidly.
This is so exciting. I watched the first Mercury missions in my elementary school auditorium on 19 inch black and white TVs. Now they are commercializing space flight! I wonder what it will cost to have my coffin flown to cremation in the Sun in about 15 years or so?
I hate to imagine the delta-V for that. You would have to kill a velocity to the Earth’s rotational velocity. If you got it wrong, you would end up slingshotting around the Sun and end up as Comet Gregerson.