re: Proposed Moon Mission Offers Little Value at Astronomical Cost

Here's the thing, and this will always be true, no one gives a shite about space flight if it doesn't involve a human being. People stop and watch a rocket lifting off into space when there is a human being on board. We connect with and identify with that person. No one really cares when they hear about another unmanned probe sallying forth to take pictures of Jupiter.

Astronauts get NASA funding, unmanned probes put them on the back burner.