Jeff Findley wrote:

Interest in Apollo dropped rapidly after the successful return of Apollo 11.
The same drop in interest also happened for shuttle, shuttle/Mir, and
shuttle/ISS.


And while Apollo ended in a hurry... Shuttle lasted a quarter century.
ISS has lasted years and chewed up an astonishing amount of cash.


What's to stop that same drop for Apollo 2.0? What will be
fundamentally different so that interest will be retained for longer than
the first few flights?


What makes you think incessant public interest is vital here?


Human access to space does not necessarily equal NASA human access to space.

Right. There are the Chinese, the Russians, the... ummm....