Somehow I missed Apollo Orphans. I'll definitely have to watch it.

I choked up over this paragraph-
"There's a documentary called Orphans of Apollo that's stated this well," he explained. "There's a generation of us, who are the tech leaders of today, who were universally inspired to go into science and technology because of the NASA Lunar Space Program. And the reason the movie is called Orphans of Apollo is because, in many ways, we feel orphaned by the fact that the space industry has not done a good job of capitalizing on that momentum of what many of us believed were the first steps into space, carrying the mission of human space flight farther and farther into deep space."

I do so feel orphaned. In grade school, we all trooped down to the kid's house where they had a huge color TV to watch the moon landings, drink Tang and eat Space Food sticks. We literally drank the kool-aid, and figuratively we all wanted to be "right there".

I worked on satellites. I wanted to be an astronaut, but for the NASA depicted in Apollo 13, not the NASA of the early 90's that I encountered, dominated by defense contractors looking to extend their companies tentacles further into the agency's systems. I've mourned the fact that we likely won't get to Mars in my lifetime, and I'm only 45. For every techie that made it big and can afford the trip - there are thousands of us that look at the stars longingly and mournfully.