re: The Concorde example
Apollo at least had a place to go and real science
to show for all its money spent.
They finally shut the Concorde down after that last
accident, plus it became too expensive to maintain and
not enough people needed to fly across the Atlantic in
just a few hours.
Ask the average person the ISS is for and what research
is being done on it. I bet they can tell you about the
upcoming golf stunt.