>>Apparently astronaut Young didn't realize his microphone was on
>>
>>http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/frame.html
>>(1. click "Apollo 16" link
>>2. then click "Debrief and Goodnight" under "The First EVA" under the "The Journal"
>>3. look at around 128:50:37
>>at around 128:53:58 he's informed about the hot mike )
>

>> But if you look at the images from on the ground at the time, the cars , the clothes , the technology all look very dated

That is what caught my attention as well while back. Computer/Communication tech also comes to mind;
At the time it was IBM-369 (or 370 ?) I could think that they were perfectly capable of running NASA massive payroll / accounting softwares at the time. But who would suspect that they were actually sufficient to send man on the moon. Extraordinary feat huh ?

By analogy;
If NASA maintained the same level of tech/innovation progress as it had between 1958 and 1968 for instance,
by now (5-6 decades later) they should be flying to outer galaxies, with routine pit-stops on mars and various other planets.
Surprisingly (or not) they did not manage to score even Man2Mars.

Perhaps with this new cold war with Russia and China, we might have again witness some new space race
and televised breaktrough-miracles thereafter.

Watched 'Interstellar' recently. Was not bored as usual with space movie.
Take a look :-)