As exciting and amazing as what these men are doing with reusable rockets.
It's not "space travel." Well, in the most literal sense that the rockets reach space.
It's certainly not the colonization of planets.
In any event, Epcot has that covered with Mission Mars and Space 220.
They're not there yet but that's the goal.
Similar to how a year ago, private flights off the planet from the US for civilans was not a reality but a goal.
Musk has been clear for a long time about his vision of humans on Mars and is putting private money into it.
NASA has plans for the moon and Mars.
NASA is slow though because it relies on public money and safely doing space stuff is expensive.
I know a lot of people think that NASA not being at the front of everything seems like a decline and like space isn't as much of a thing anymore but it's exactly the opposite. Them taking more of a back seat was always the goal. Government was supposed to pick up the slack until there was enough interest from the private sector to start pushing things forward.
It's taken half a century and the egos of some middle-aged billionaires to get us there but we're finally at that tipping point.
Regarding Mission Mars and Space 220 from an edutainment standpoint, Mission Mars was from the start intended as a thrill ride first and connected to some form of reality, second* and Space 220 is to the idea of actual space dining what T-Rex in Disney Springs is to actually dining in the Mesozoic era. :/
*Are you on a simulator or actually going to space? In neither the old version or the two newer ones does it seem like they've made up their minds on the story they're telling.
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