It’s embarrassing because there’s no goal. Where are we going? What are we doing?
Returning to the moon as was called for in Constellation program would have been a most challenging, worthy space project. It would have fulfilled all the neccessary requirements appealing to the scientific community, the curiosity, interest of the public to keep it going for decades to come, but the project was not permitted to ever get off the launch pad.
We are going to Utopia. We will get ther on spaceship stimulous via the Koran.