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Understanding Space Travel

Three, two, one...
I mean, I just think it'd be just fun to go to another planet.
Set up like cities out in space.
I think I want to go on a, on an Apollo mission so I can do a space walk.
Since the early 1960's, when the possibility of human space travel became reality, kids and adventurers of all ages, have dreamed of going into space themselves.
Sometime, in the twenty-first century, your children's children may very well fly Pan Am to the moon.
In 1968, Pan Am kicked off a curious ad campaign.
They were accepting reservations to guarantee seats on their future flights to the moon.

Ninety-three thousand people made reservations.
I was one of the first hundred to make a reservation for the moon flight.
I was working at the William Morris agency at the time......
and a very excited Albert Brooks, who was one of our clients at William Morris, came running into my offiice and saying that he just heard that Pan American Airways was taking reservations to the moon.
They were taking reservations......
if you wanted to go to the moon.
They were eventually going to have a ship that would go there.
I sent away for tickets for me and my future wife.
I didn't even think about maybe I'd have kids.
"Fares are not fully resolved and may be out of this world.
We ask you to be patient." Is twenty-eight years enough time to be patient?
There is no environment more alien to the human body than the emptiness of space, where temperatures can fluctuate five hundred degrees.
Where, without the protection of a spaceship or a spacesuit, the vacuum would make blood boil.