Beautiful post. Ley and Bonestell's initial visions were before my time, but they were still around during my Apollo-era childhood, and influenced subsequent generations of space artists.

I have mixed feelings. On the one hand a nostalgia for their future that never was, on the other hand a nostalgia for the real Moon missions of my childhood. And on the THIRD hand... I still get excited when I see a SpaceX booster successfully land - Bonestellian tailfin first - after a Crew Dragon launch.

As for SpaceX's space nazi ownership, I'm reminded of my childhood disappointment when I learned that Von Braun also sent the V2 rocket that damaged my home town (many years before I was born).

Yeah, mixed feelings.