Astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson is entertaining and informative as ever. I keep thinking that the fact that the superconducting super collider wasn't funded was a fundamentally large lost opportunity to create a technological ecosystem that would have driven innovation and provided a better future for the people in America (not just jobs but careers). This kind of thing has been repeated many times since. We might be regularly launching a 3rd generation space shuttle by now in addition to the commercial rockets like SpaceX did today if only we had the vision and will to do so. Other countries commendably do. As Carl Sagan indicated in his book the Pale Blue Dot, human spaceflight and astronauts are the first defense in the survival of our world civilization since the universe is out to kill us. The first moon landing inspired me. It was awesome. The accomplishment is still awesome and still inspires me today. I image that it also inspired many other to go into science and technology too. It mostly likely provided a better standard of living too. Now for some reason, it seems there is some odd notion that we can't afford or don't want to invest in our future. It's very strange and unfortunate because it effects so many people in a negative way. We need to get back to the future. We need solutions and investments that result and rival the awesome accomplishments of moon landing going forward.