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Soon we won’t have anyone who remembers what it was like to walk on the moon.

They are really in a minority of a minority, probably the smallest minority on Earth, people who walked on the Moon There were only 12 as you pointed out, 9 of them still living and the youngest is 75. I even bought the Buzz Aldrin edition of the Grundig G6 Aviator shortwave radio since I'm a real spacehead and mixing that with my radio hobby. There is an entire generation of adults and more that have NEVER seen a man walk on the Moon. I remember watching the missions even though I was very young, I was 3 when Armstrong landed on the Moon but I remember it vividly. I'm 45 now. I even got into debates with someone who thought the landings were fake "because 1969 technology could not do it" and he added "look at the cars they had then."

Personally, if we had the rocket thrust given to us, we could have done the Moon landings with 1930's if we were willing to take a few risks or even 1900/1910 tech if we left out a radio, but that "what-if" is for another debate.

Still though, IIRC, the computers in the command and lunar modules had like 4K of RAM and 36K ROM, more or less the power of the first personal computers that came out in the mid to late 1970's. Today's cars have more computer power but yet, we went to the Moon with much less.

I try to ask a question online during the debates about what each candidate would do to bring back manned space exploration.

It takes guts. It takes dedication and first and foremost, it takes sacrifice.

Something that I haven’t seen in a long time. I’m not old enough to remember the manned landings. For me the ‘dreams’ of my generation was the Voyager probe. Amazing to be sure, but depressing to think that the best manned flight memories are of Challenger and Columbia. Low earth orbit is the farthest that man has gone in my life, and that’s, frankly pathetic.