
I should imagine that, if driving a truck along a motorway was as technologically difficult, expensive and dangerous; was also being undertaken by a multitude of nations in an almost unprecedented spirit of cooperation and had such a huge possible impact upon the whole world, then, yes, we would see headlines about "truck drives along motorway."
Space exploration needs to be kept in the public eye so that public apathy doesn't kill it. It may be that space exploration & travel maybe the only thing that saves our species.