Main focuses:

Sex

Relationships

Sex

Social Status

Sex

Music

Sex

Career

Sex

and Sex

Add to this the 30-plus years of Star Wars with its hyperdrive starships and
all-too-human alien life forms and planets and all the cultural references that
have copied it since, plus the growing pessimism, rejection of authority, and
the perception of science types as anything but something to emulate and
be branded one, and it should not be a huge surprise as to why many young
people don't get into a manned Moon base or understand science.

The question is, can NASA or another group do what it really takes to get
the youth culture into space?

We can't even expect the Universe as it presents itself every night in the
sky to do the job, with all the light pollution blocking out the stars.