21. With all this talk about space travel, aren't we taking too large a jump and getting too far ahead of ourselves? (A K2S Question)

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We have been traveling in space since 1961. We were able to start space travel before personal computers existed and before cell phones were invented. Most televisions were black and white, and cars didn't have air conditioning, automatic braking systems or pollution control. Carrying around a thousand songs in an iPod would be science fiction—a person would have needed a shopping cart full of vinyl records and a wind-up phonograph. No, real space travel for ordinary people is long overdue.

Answer provided by David Gump & Gary Hudson

Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer