Re: Seven years from this July it will have been half a century since NASA first landed men on the Moon.
I'm 64 years old. I'm not likely to see a manned exploration of the planets by anybody.
As far as snarky is concerned...
"NASA isn’t about space transportation, and the Shuttle wasn’t about low-cost reusability.
"In government programs, “expensive” and “time-consuming” are virtues, not flaws. The ideal NASA development program is one that lasts decades and pumps billions into Congressional districts. Whether anything useful comes out the other end is almost beside the point."
Clear enough for you? At least, the last sentence of your post was ideologically neutral.