>Putting men on the moon could have ushered in a new age of exploration Not really. Solving the propulsion and energy generation problems would have done that

>Putting men on the moon could have ushered in a new age of exploration Not really. Solving the propulsion and energy generation problems would have done that, but not merely sending a bunch more people to a space rock for a few days using chemical rockets. EMDrive is interesting if it works, but significantly more efficient energy generation still eludes us.