Yes, but not primarily from the wasteful Shuttle program. This is, like "silverlizzard" said, a politically correct PR program and not real achievement as with the Mercury 7. Let's save the money from the doofy Shuttle trips ($600m per, i believe) and just built the inevitable "Moonbase Alpha" already. We can mine there all we want too, without any pesky wildlife to excite environmentalists to block it. And let's go to Mars already, enough of stupid orbits. Privatize contractors to fix hubble and other satellites. MARS! We can put all the Muslims there.