It says a lot about our society that there are people who have such a disproportionately huge amount of money they can piss it away making spaceships and launching themselves. Too bad. They had an opportunity to be heroes by using their obscene amounts of excess wealth to feed a lot of people or provide decent housing for people living in parks or fund drinking water improvements for our First Nations people or improve our hospitals or fund medical research or any number of really positive and worthwhile efforts.