The Answer Is: 42

http://www.fox19.com/story/15096602/42-years-ago-man-landed-on-the-moon

I remember that day, early July 21th (where I lived) 1969. 11 years old I was, woken up by my mom and dad, sleepy watching on TV live the whole coverage, getting excited and thinking there were no limits to what mankind would achive next. Surely lunar dwellings for further explorations would follow soon, I and most people thought. But not much more than repeated lunar landings followed. No excavations with some real tools - perhaps we already then would have discovered water there, and so on. Then there could have been buildings there permenantly. And some real big telescopes spread around working together at the moon surface to discover earth-like planets around other solar systems.

Optimistically much of the society where I lived in 1969 got a boost with American goods - especially comic books (some in the original language). I bought a lot - included the first issue of "Flax" with Mix and Max (called only The Fox and The Crow in English). But in the early 70's the tide shifted and the war in Vietnam got the headlines. I never gave up though, hoping for at least a Mars mission in the 80's. But they came and went, so did the 90's, and 00's, and... Now the possibility of a come back lies in the hand of the Italian Andrea Rossi and his sensational new concept of transmuting nano-nickel plus hydrogen into copper isotopes to get the needed boost for a fast traveling space rocket. I hope he and his company won't fail in october this year when some real trials start with his new reactor in Greece.