Just some scattered thoughts on the topic.
Plenty of people don’t even believe that we went to the moon. Of-course the moon is not a very friendly place. If this was some kind of paradise, we would have gone back more than a few times.
Space exploration is an expensive dream. Romance without finance is a nuisance.
I enjoyed the Ken Burns parody of the Negro NASA League. They took old school busses and retrofitted them as space capsules.
I knew the space program was in trouble when the astronaut drove a thousand miles to harass her old flame.
I used to think that space capsules were somehow related to time capsules. Then somehow aspirin got involved with their tiny time capsules.
That'll probably be Obama's justification for canceling our manned spaceflight program.