Why did the public lose interest in the space program?

The novelty of "The new frontier" has worn off so it gets ignored a lot.

Look at what is on headline news, nothing but politics and the covid thing. Even stuff like shootings is getting swept under the carpet, especially when the shooter is the good guy hero.

There are more interesting entertainment options available today. Back in the late 60s/early 70s, there were only four tv channels in most tv markets.

The pace of space exploration had been glacially slow until the rise of SpaceX. Slow moving endeavors don't capture the popular imagination. But now things are cooking again. Elon Musk is one of the few billionaires who actually does earn his money.

name 50 media outlets,ALL cook skin and fry chikin for the democrats issue by week month or year,,which means,,,,,,,,,they do NOT CARE where public interest lay,see all the space travel related sites on you tube,,a zillion of them with 50 and a lot more KS subs millions of likes,,do not judge what or how the public thinks from the average jos or joannes who follow lamestream media

it;s all politics,,like you said,media bury or ignore what the public is and what they think

At the time of going to the Moon, it was exciting and captured our imagination.  Then Star Wars and other movies took our attention.  NASA turned into an expensive PC joke to watch mice float or to make sure every country on earth has an astronaut.  All at the expense of taxpayers who work hard for their money and resented the waste.

because it cost so much for no results , thats why , throwing away money .

Space has lost its novelty. It has become a common aspiration for too long with live streams from YouTube and NASA being available 24/7. The cost has out-weighed the the benefits in the short term, but in the long term of humanity, we must move out into space. Our little island is sinking in plastic and chemical waste. We need help and new space technology fast to survive.

Currently, the joint efforts of many countries, governments, universities, and privet industries cooperating in exploration with one another, are giving us valuable knowledge needed to find the new world of the future.

We shouldn't be so short sighted as to not see the value in what we've learned so far.

With the knowledge of others (extraterrestrials I know exist) who are showing interest in our space exploration, we should hope they are willing and able to help us in our struggle to the stars.

We are a childish, greedy, and destructive species to them. Lets pray we can change their mind about us before its too late.

Your right, Covid 19, Bitcoin and politics, they're all distractions.

Mainly because the Onus has been on Machines rather than Humans

Being in my 60's I remember the Apollo Programme and those heady days

It was easy to think then that the Next Step would be on Mars

But alas it was too big a job, but it will happen

Boots on an other Planet

But when You think of what the likes of New Horizons has done since 2006

There is no way a Human mission could have done it

Space exploration costs a fantastic amount of money and it brings nothing back financially people nowadays are concerned with receiving something for their money and space exploration just doesn't bring anything back to our pockets

Hard to care about space exploration and discovery when living conditions are getting worse. Let's prioritize fixing our problems down here first, then people will have the luxury to concern themselves with space.