It’s too bad that we’ll never catch up with the 20th-century ideals of astrofuturism. We are a little under 100 years out from when Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: The Next Generation take place, and despite what’s happening in the news with Katy Perry going to space, I do not think we’ll be able to live on the moon or participate in recreational space travel anytime soonn. All astrofuturistic books, movies, and theme parks assume that the cultural importance and technological growth of the Space Age of the 1960s will increase exponentially, despite it going in the opposite direction. Sure, a certain South African billionaire claims he will bring the US military to space, but do we think he can do that efficiently? There is a significant difference between an eccentric billionaire funding space travel that most non-pop stars are too risk-averse to participate in, versus the government investing billions of dollars into winning the Cold War, a symbolic victory of great importance.