What is the long term significance of the moon landing?

The Apollo Program convinced the US government to pour billions of dollars into jumpstarting Americas space infrastructure that is still regularly used today, and it proved landing people on there was possible. Much of the Apollo Equipment even found use beyond the Apollo Program in other NASA spaceflight ventures.
Would America still have a space program and infrastructure without the Apollo Program? Sure, but it's likely it would've been built up far more slowly otherwise. The Apollo Program also provided jobs and economic stimulus after the Eisenhower Recession in the late 1950s put a lot of government and military employees out of work.

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>The Apollo Program also provided jobs and economic stimulus after the Eisenhower Recession in the late 1950s put a lot of government and military employees out of work.
Just want to add that this is especially significant because it demonstrated how Americas Postwar Aerospace Industry and Military Industrial Complex could continue operating even during peacetime under a Civillian Agency. It showed how you don't necesarilly need to go to war in order to have an operational MIC

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I was thinking more along the lines of “after 4 billion years of life on earth, humans were the first species to reach the moon less than 60 years ago”