One should maybe see the trip in a different way
I think the moon-trip was a big achievement to humanity in a very wide perspective.
Today there isn´t much that really unites every single man on earth, today all is about money, power, differences between races and religions and so on.
A race that kills about 150 millions of themselves in a hundered years Isn´t very good at working together.
Such thing as visiting another planet (moon) is indeed something that unites all of us. (Even though that wasn´t the purpose with it)
We realize, if only for a moment, how similar we are and how much we actually have in common.
Ok, too much fairytale maybe. But I do think the trip to the moon gave mankind more than materialistic achievments.
We all need to see things with a wider prespective sometimes.
Yes, us programmers too...