SF in the 50's, 60's, 70's etc..always assumed humans would have an easy access to space.
But now we see unmanned flights are those that evolve in the right side: becoming faster to develope and use, cheaper to build, smaller and smaller, with more sophisticated instruments, all for the purpose of expanding mankind's knowledge of space and Earth.
Manned spacecrafts are limited by the human factor and it won't go away.

Once, i was discussing what humans could do in space with a ESA employee. He said that LEO (for the station) is the only manned way to go, before Mars.
No manned flights in GEO, L1, L2, PEO (polar earth orbit) nor TLI (Trans-Lunar Insertion).
I found it depressing, but it's true there are limits to where humans can go, if costs are a factor.
So my answer: buy Apollo flights DVD's, buy moonwalker's biographies, meet monwalkers personally (it won't always be possible), send a satellite taking very sharp pictures of the moonlanding sites or other places on the Moon, produce an IMAX movie about the Moonlandings (under way).
We won't go to Mars in our lifetime anyway and we won't return back to the Moon as long as what motivates those who could make those things possible is short term profit.

Raoul