Most people don’t care about Apollo 11 period.
They know it happened but they have zero interest in it or the history.
That’s why the average person doesn’t cares now. They never actually did.
They know it happened but they have zero interest in it or the history.
That’s why the average person doesn’t cares now. They never actually did.
Back then, it was a big event that made the news worldwide.
Artemis II launched yesterday, and my non-engineer relatives and friends don't even know it happened (they don't even know it was planned).
People don’t get their “news” from news agencies anymore, though. They get it from their social media algorithms, and if they have no prior interest in anything space or tangential to space, they won’t get news about it.
And if they did hear about it, it probably didn’t connect whatsoever, and their brain filled it away in the same place as “city bus makes successful stop at bus stop.” Because they couldn’t care less.
Culture is far less centralized, for better or worse.
They're not anyway interested in spaceflight but they still got the news