Thoughts about history, on just another day?

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40 years ago today, Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of Earth's moon.
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At that time, America was involved in a war in Viet Nam, was struggling with what many thought was racism's dying gasps, wrestling with the daily struggles against the U.S.S.R., and short of re-reading newspapers from that day, we can't remember all that was going on. But it all got dwarfed by the goings on, on the moon.
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I was just shy of 15, it was summer, and we spent the day at the swimming pool, where someone had set up a TV. My recollection is being completely in awe of those two lucky men who were on the moon. All the other news, the war, politics, rape, robbery, murder, NASCAR, whatever else that got reported, was gone for that day. Everyone's eyes and ears were on the moon. It is, along with a few other days in my life, a day that I can recall with great clarity.
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40 years later, our space program, as with many scientific studies, is stalled. We spend tons of money on Midnight Basktball, Condoms for High Schools, food, housing, and support for people who won't work. We pay farmers to NOT grow crops, we've allowed millions of illegal aliens to invade our country, we've allowed leftists to co-opt our education system, we've allowed our country's ideals, history and culture to be denigrated and made to seem dirty or archaic.
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I have wondered in the last few days, if our time isn't about up as a world power and world leader. Did we pass the American Apex at some point in the last 40 years? It seems so to me.
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Schteveo