The bible is a major point of belief for lots of flat earthers and thats a very sad thing. I believe in god but my god created an amazing and vast universe with untold things yet to discover. So to me that means my god is way more powerful and creative than a flat earth god that thinks very small and wants his believers to be trapped in a snow globe prison like pets rather than a infinite grand creation.
First to answer your OP question.
No civilian is going in orbit soon. Like the claims of several presidents to return to the moon, this is in the same catagory of ''wishfull thinking''.
Money has never been an issue when greedy people want something or want to go somewhere.
There is nothing sacred on earth where we didn't intrude or destroyed.
The false claims that we are nearing an age of spacetravel for ordinary men is simply untrue.
Every scifi of the seventies/eighties wondered about spacetravel and series like space 1999 (one of my favourites) had a moon base before the year 2000 !!
This was the overall conviction back then.
In this century Mac Donalds would open their first moon branch....so to speak.
Nothing...nada and the same faith awaits for the hypothetical civilian space industries. Not going to happen.
It is like i have asked many times....in what year we can sincerely question the moonlanding's authenticity ?
I have noticed that the ''believers'' have postponed that date. I had several NASA fanboys telling me 5 years ago that 2025 was a very realisitc date, but now people are aiming at 2040 territory for a return trip to the moon.
It is obvious, we didn't go to the moon therefor we cannot return. We can hypothetically go there, but ''Orion'' has confessed they are nowhere capable of such thing now....and maybe never.
Then the question remains about what did they lie to us ?
And now the other remarks
Your god is your spag (self projection of god)
Science has told you the universe started with a bang and is increasingly vast,.....so your idea of god has changed in the process.
The observable physicall boundaries tell us nothing about freedom and peace...they are a mere reflection of something bigger than the eye can see.
But that is for a religious forum,....not this one.
We went to the moon
The question as to whether or not we went there began in 1969. I would guess that it was days after the first reports hit the air waves, it became contentious with a lot of people. However, it wasn't a conspiracy but rather a competition with Russia to dominate space. The Russians put Sputnik into orbit and the US feared they would gain military superiority. Do you believe every astronaut and their families were in on a mass conspiracy? If so, what about those 3 astronauts on Apollo 1 that were burned to a crisp? The burned out space craft is sitting in a warehouse at NASA LaRC, in Hampton, Virginia. Are we to believe they were sacrificed to perpetuate a conspiracy? What about Christa McAuliffe, the school teacher who was killed in the explosion of the Challenger shuttle? If you say she wasn't a real person, perhaps you can ask all the school children who watched their teacher die on television.
For what reason would any agency perpetuate a conspiracy that would require the support of thousands of people and a cost of Biblical proportions? The government can't keep secrets. We've seen that. How long was it after the 1st nukes were dropped that the Russians had the design. Do you think this is a global conspiracy?
Incidentally... not all scientists believe in the "Big Bang" theory because frankly, they don't know. It is a theory - nothing more.
Finally... you should just look at the technology that has come about as a result of the space program. There are simple, everyday items in your house than were spawn off of NASA projects to develop metals, plastics, electronics, etc., etc., etc.
Nobody is lying to you. The boogeyman is not out to get you.