24 hours before the 40th anniversary of man's first steps on another world

Here's the list, straight from Wikipedia of the only men to walk on the Moon:

	Name	Mission	EVA dates
1	Neil Armstrong	Apollo 11	July 20, 1969
2	Buzz Aldrin
3	Pete Conrad	Apollo 12	November 19-20, 1969
4	Alan Bean
5	Alan Shepard	Apollo 14	February 5-6, 1971
6	Edgar Mitchell
7	David Scott	Apollo 15	July 31–August 2, 1971
8	James Irwin
9	John W. Young	Apollo 16	April 21-23, 1972
10	Charles Duke
11	Eugene Cernan	Apollo 17	December 11-14, 1972
12	Harrison Schmitt

Since December 14, 1972 -- nearly 37 years ago -- no man or woman from any nation has set foot on the Lunar surface. In fact, no one has left low Earth orbit in that time.

We've accomplished much in the last 40 years: We have personal computers far more sophisticated than the computers available to our lunar astronauts. We have HDTV and blogs and and Facebook and Tweeter and energy drinks. We have microwave ovens. We have an African-American in the White House. We've had two women, and will soon have a third, on the U.S. Supreme Court.

But in this singularly important regard, we've accomplished nothing.

Not a particularly happy anniversary so far as I'm concerned.

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If you've read this far, you may also be interested in this essay, Space: Is the final frontier all it used to be? by AP Writer Ted Anthony. An excerpt:

"At the frontier, the bonds of custom are broken, and unrestraint is triumphant." So said Frederick Jackson Turner, the 19th-century historian whose ideas showed Americans how important their frontier experience was to them.

"I wanted to be a spaceman — that's what I wanted to be. But now that I am a spaceman, nobody cares about me." So sang Harry Nilsson, the musician who in 1972 channeled the changing feelings about space exploration in this country.

Today, somewhere between those two absurdly different ideas, sits America's attitude about space.

America needs its attitude toward space exploration adjusted -- or it will be left in the dustbin of history by more vigorous Asian cultures.