Windows in the ISS have had to be replaced because of damage by flecks of paint.

Travelling in space will certainly be a long term idea, in order to invite someone to a wedding who lived near Alpha Centuri you would have to know the date many years in advance.

It would be more a case of a colonised space station home which moved rather than a means of transport.

Other more way out forms of getting around may have disadvantages.

I teleported home one night
With Ron and Sid and Meg.
Ron stole Meggie's heart away
And I got Sidney's leg.