What if we never went to the moon the first in the first place? I am joking of course, but I think it's weird we went to the moon in 1969 and in 2018 we can't do that anymore.
Sorry, can you elaborate on the point you are trying to make?
People may think of, say, the Hubble space telescope as being a big deal and costing a lot, but when you realize there were lots of similar ones, only they were classified spy satellites, it puts into perspective how small NASA's budget is.