Summary:
Several Days ago Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo fell apart above the Mojave Dessert in California. One test piolet was killed and the other was injured. When asked if Virgin though this would worry furture space tourists and that if this was a reason to quit Virgin founder Richard Branson said "unless you risk something, the world stand still".
Analysis:
This whole event is very comparable to when Europeans were leaving their homes to come to the New World. At that time many people would die at sea and usually many, many more would die when they actually got to this New World. Even so that fact did not stop the numerous colonists that came in search for a better life. In a sense space is the next and "final frontier", we've pretty much already colonized all of our tiny little Earth and have (quite literally) no where else to go but up. So by giving people this ability to take regular airplane flights into outerspace would only push us closer and closer to that eventual reality, but quitting right now would only counteract all of our progress.
Link:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/03/us/spaceshiptwo-incident/index.html?hpt=us_c2
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