moon landing

While everyone is worrying about the economy, terrorism and making swine flu action plans
(the one in our office involved stocking up on cheap tissues & and putting up patronising posters)
...It was refreshing to transport my mind to the moon, for the 40th anniversary of the moon landing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMINSD7MmT4

Its hard to imagine how it would have felt to watch live the first people to ever walk on the moon,
However, I have a feeling that as much as I would be in awe, I would be shocked at what an alarming waste of money the whole thing was.
With all the problems on earth, it seems a little irresponsible to wander off throwing around millions of dollars.

But I guess it's the human instinct for exploration that will keep us expanding out till there is nowhere left to go,

I wonder if in a few hundred years there will be people settled on the moon and mars?
and cruises for the super-rich around Saturn?

The earth would probably be better off if we left home and it carried on without us.