"As of July 20, 2021, a total of 574 people from 41 countries have gone into space according to the FAI criterion (587 people have qualified when including the US Department of Defense classification). Of those 574, three people only reached a sub-orbital flight, 567 people reached Earth orbit, 24 traveled beyond low Earth orbit and 12 walked on the Moon.[7]" So on average about 12 people per year, nearly all military. 50 years ago, 12 people went 238,000 miles one way. Humans should be vacationing in 'outer space' by now at only 50 or 60 miles up. Politics? Or something else? Maybe NDGT can explain.