hosspuller
Senior Member
I'm not fond of modes of travel where the failure mode of the machine means death of the crew and passengers. I can pull my car or motor cycle to the side of the road if the engine quits running. Doesn't work that way for a plane in the air or a ship on the ocean.
Nor a space craft. A piece of machinery with millions of critical parts built by the lowest bidder *. Even "pulling over" ie. stopping propulsion is death, Celestial mechanics are precise and unforgiving.
* May not be true of private space companies
- SpaceX.
- Blue Origin.
- Virgin Galactic.