&gt; The moon landing was certainly extremely inspirational, but it was never going to lead to anything as the rockets always ended up at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.<p>The Apollo missions are literally the reason that any of us are able to do modern aerospace at the capacity we are. I appreciate the sentiment of the author, but in terms of progress, it&#x27;s almost like saying that Chuck Yaeger&#x27;s flight in the Bell X-1 was more important than the Wright Flyer.<p>Both are extremely important milestones, but landing on the Moon, in under a decade, from near-zero, is more impressive. And I&#x27;m biased <i>toward</i> SpaceX.