Having grown up reading Heinlein, I was always sort of embarassed that we did nothing after the Moon Shot. I have always wondered why.
Most of these manned NASA Missions accomplish little, scientifically speaking with their laughable "Science Fair" type experiments. They are expensive rides to nowhere in particular.
Now if we had a lunar base ......
Just the other day I read an article here at FR about one of the original “lightsaber” props from Star Wars being sent up on the next shuttle.
I’m OK with space tourists who are trained and paying but a movie prop is taking it too far.