[anigbrowl]

Yeah, I feel like the answer seems most likely to be "no one gets excited over going to the moon the nth time".

All the people asking 'why can't we go to the moon' would definitely get excited. Plenty of people get excited every time SpaceX has a successful launch or achieve some innovation, but somehow you've convinced yourself that 'people on the moon' is fundamentally boring and nobody is interested.

[saghm]

Do you really think there's as many people as excited about SpaceX launches as there were people interested in the space race in the 60s? I'm not sure why you're assuming what my opinion is on this; I'm talking about people in aggregate, which is what matters in terms of the government investing heavily in it like they did before.