I am a post-Apollo baby. Throughout my entire career, I’ve listened to the stories from senior researchers about how they watched men walk on the moon and thus became astronomers or planetary scientists. Me… I watched science fiction and decided if I wasn’t going to fly among the stars I’d study them instead. Over the years, I’ve heard a fairly consistent tale from those elder scientists - they thought they’d grow up to live in a world where space exploration was just an everyday experience; one that included the same kinds of research stations on the Moon that we’ve had so long in...