Longest flight delay ever.
Elon Musk could have promised to make business space travel an on a regular basis event with SpaceX, but those with infinite memories will recall the concept being floated many moons ago — while one would-be carrier even handed out IOUs.
Pan Am — the airline considered to be amongst one of the best of the world during travel’s so-called Golden Age — reportedly at one point had its sights set far beyond the Idlewild to London run.
At the height of the late-Nineteen Sixties space race, the flyer promised bookings for future moon flights to a whopping 100,000 people.
At that time, leaving Earth’s orbit was a feat best left to highly-trained astronauts like Neil Armstrong, who touched down on the lunar surface in 1969.
But that didn’t stop Pan Am from issuing 93,000 “first moon flights” club member cards, starting in 1968 — anticipating the day that technology would meet up with dream and demand.
Famed news anchor Walter Cronkite was only one boldfacer on the lucky list, The Los Angeles Times reported.
The yr 2000 was given because the possible start date for the trips — but Pan Am went bankrupt nine years before it could make good on its promise.
The zany idea got here about in 1964 when Gerhard Pistor, an Austrian journalist, asked a travel agency in Vienna to book him a visit to the moon.
The reporter’s request was eventually forwarded to Pan Am, which recognized the chance for an important marketing gimmick.
Demand to be admitted to “The First Moon Flights Club” was apparently so great, the corporate, suffering financial hardships within the early Seventies, pulled the plug on latest requests.
“The [club] was labeled by many as a publicity stunt,” in response to the National Endowment for the Humanities.
“But Pan Am representatives maintained well into the Nineteen Eighties that it was a real program, insisting the airline would honor its bookings and that viable business space travel was imminent.”
Houston-based Intuitive Machines became the primary private company to land an aircraft on the moon, back in early 2024.
Odysseus touched down on the lunar surface on Feb. 22 — and stopped working every week later later, The Post reported earlier.
Longest flight delay ever.
Elon Musk could have promised to make business space travel an on a regular basis event with SpaceX, but those with infinite memories will recall the concept being floated many moons ago — while one would-be carrier even handed out IOUs.
Pan Am — the airline considered to be amongst one of the best of the world during travel’s so-called Golden Age — reportedly at one point had its sights set far beyond the Idlewild to London run.
At the height of the late-Nineteen Sixties space race, the flyer promised bookings for future moon flights to a whopping 100,000 people.
At that time, leaving Earth’s orbit was a feat best left to highly-trained astronauts like Neil Armstrong, who touched down on the lunar surface in 1969.
But that didn’t stop Pan Am from issuing 93,000 “first moon flights” club member cards, starting in 1968 — anticipating the day that technology would meet up with dream and demand.
Famed news anchor Walter Cronkite was only one boldfacer on the lucky list, The Los Angeles Times reported.
The yr 2000 was given because the possible start date for the trips — but Pan Am went bankrupt nine years before it could make good on its promise.
The zany idea got here about in 1964 when Gerhard Pistor, an Austrian journalist, asked a travel agency in Vienna to book him a visit to the moon.
The reporter’s request was eventually forwarded to Pan Am, which recognized the chance for an important marketing gimmick.
Demand to be admitted to “The First Moon Flights Club” was apparently so great, the corporate, suffering financial hardships within the early Seventies, pulled the plug on latest requests.
“The [club] was labeled by many as a publicity stunt,” in response to the National Endowment for the Humanities.
“But Pan Am representatives maintained well into the Nineteen Eighties that it was a real program, insisting the airline would honor its bookings and that viable business space travel was imminent.”
Houston-based Intuitive Machines became the primary private company to land an aircraft on the moon, back in early 2024.
Odysseus touched down on the lunar surface on Feb. 22 — and stopped working every week later later, The Post reported earlier.
