We are still on track to be on Mars on or before 2069 though, and might have a permanent moon base by then. Even since the moon launch humanity has built severa

We are still on track to be on Mars on or before 2069 though, and might have a permanent moon base by then. Even since the moon launch humanity has built several more-or-less permanent bases in space, increased its space-industrial base by hundreds of times and set up an interplanetary comms network. Sure I'd like it to go even faster but I don't think it's going all that slowly. For someone reading a history book in the year 3500 these past 5 decades are all very close together. It's not like steam trains exploded out of the gates 2 years after the the first steam engine was used to drain coal mines in England, that also took several decades to spread to the general public.