“Very unimpressive. It looks like it’s 1960, all over again.”
yes and no.
Try to remember exactly what this is all about.
Return to moon, to stay, and go beyond.
The Orion capsule enables missions beyond low earth orbit.
It will dock with a new larger lunar lander launched to orbit on another large rocket. Then head for the moon.
Orion will also visit space station.
There are ideas also to visit asteroids.
And eventually perhaps in our lifetime, we will see a Mars mission using some of this hardware you see today.
Our motto should be “Go Farther”