Airships vanished, airplanes thrived
One Challenger disaster in January 1986, and the plug was pulled on the radical, space shuttles that made spacecraft partially reusable, arguably slowing down manned space exploration for decades on end. The same fate befell the majestic airships, once a far more luxurious alternative to the steel-tube hurtling in the sky called the aeroplane that has thrived quite well.
Source: indiatimes.com