Nell Greenfield Boyce

And then you have the fact that the majority of people alive today have been born after 1972.

Yeah.

There was never a time in their life when they looked up at the moon and thought, well, there's people there right now, you know.

But having said that, there was one recent poll that found that a majority of Americans did support the Artemis program.

And I was talking to one historian who pointed out that, you know, that poll suggests there was like more support for this program now than there was for Apollo back in the 1960s.

Wow.

I mean, there was a lot of enthusiasm around certain moments of the Apollo program.

Mm-hmm.

But, you know, support just kind of petered out.

Once the space race had been won, you know, they didn't want to spend all this money on it.

I mean, they were spending a lot more back then.

It was like 4% of the national budget compared to, you know, less than 1%, a fraction of a percent for NASA today.

I will say, though, there is a lot of bipartisan support in Congress.

And there's been support over multiple administrations for this moon program.

So we'll see.

Well, lots of people in the space community feel that Mars is the obvious destination, right?

And so NASA actually considers this its moon to Mars program.

But so far, there's been mostly moon and not really much to Mars.

Some people question whether the moon is really a stepping stone to Mars or whether we would kind of get bogged down in the moon.

But others say, well, you know, if you want to live on another planet, it's different than Mars.