> 60 years after swinging around the moon, we are going to attempt the feat again. I'm having a hard time getting excited...

There was a comedian that had the observation a few years back that we've lost our saw of awe and wonder: he was on a plane when Internet was just being introduced, and it was announced on the flight, but after a little bit it stopped working and they announced 'technical difficulties' and it wouldn't be available.

The guy next to him was like "this is bullshit": how quickly the world owed this guy something that he knew existed only a few minutes before.

As he goes on: often whenever people complain about their flights, it was like a 1940s German cattle car: X happened, then Y happened. And his response is: And then what happened? Did you fly in the air? Did you sit on a chair in the sky? Like a bird, like humans have been imaging since the tail of Icarus (and before)?

Hedonic adaptation is real (which is "fine" as far as it goes, as striving for better isn't a bad thing):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill

But given you're invoking history, it's easy how it is to forget the woe that humans lived in just a few decades before Apollo 8, and the incredible strides that happened (and that many people on the planet, even now, have yet to fully experience):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_and_Fall_of_American_...

Louis C.K.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me4BZBsHwZs

The comedian is Louis C.K.