From Tyler Cowen's The Great Stagnation:

Everyone of a certain age thinks of the 1969 moon landing as a symbolic dividing line between the new technological era and the old. At the time, the moon landing occasioned great excitement and it was heralded as the beginning of a new age. But it's more properly seen as the culmination of some older technological developments.

This is meant literally in a usefultohumanitytechnological sense but damn if it doesn't feel right in a spiritual sense too. How inward our ambition, will, and dreams seem to be.