Is your analogy useful? It's been several decades since the first driverless cars, so if the "Wright Brothers to St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line" comparison were predictive, we should have had plenty of those cars on the road by now.
There are also many other analogies you could have made with different timelines. Virgin Galactic, which bills itself as the first commercial spaceline, is already half-a-decade behind its original launch date. Even Tito's 2001 flight was four decades after Gagarin.
Why look to commercial flight and not commercial space travel as the relevant comparison?
There are also many other analogies you could have made with different timelines. Virgin Galactic, which bills itself as the first commercial spaceline, is already half-a-decade behind its original launch date. Even Tito's 2001 flight was four decades after Gagarin.
Why look to commercial flight and not commercial space travel as the relevant comparison?