My point was that there is little to no interest in this latest tour-d'-space--why I posted to you in the first place. He doesn't seem to be much more worldwide than he was before. This surprised me, the lack of prominent coverage. I'm a news junkie, I pay attn to space news, and the launch passed completely under my reading radar. I only found out y'day that he was already at the SS.
The attention dropoff since Shuttleworth (was that his name? Cuttleworth? I'll look it up later, but his name sounds something like that) bought his ticket is steeper than I expected.
But, NASA is preparing to launch some robotic moon explorers beginning in 2-3 years. Something like Surveyor on steroids. They'll learn more from that than from the actual Apollo Ver. 2, and probably spend 5-10% of their moon budget in the process. Marshall and Goddard are on the team. Might be some hiring for those who want their career wrapped in plastic.