Very unfortunate because a lot of practical engineering and battle tested systems design practices came from the apollo program and it would not have happened without teams of people working together.

I think they address this pretty well actually. It's hard to say exactly where without spoilers but in particular a character talks about the difference that a death of a hero (astronaut) makes vs the command control guys or nameless ground crew. One of the many things I liked about the show is pointing out how that really matters why it shouldn't.

FYI, there's another season starting in just a few days. Just sharing in case you weren't aware.

I think that's one of the things I really like about the show. That is shows that even in Hard(ish) SciFi there is room for humans to be heroes. Also minor spoiler

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it show's diverse crews as being able to perform heroics just as much as the standard male heroic type.

May I recommend The Expanse as another, possibly more mature, take on humanity’s space era.

Actually the expanse, for all mankind, and the martian are my erm ... I guess holy trinity of modern hard(ish) sci fi about space exploration. There is a lot of overlap in the fandoms of each and each series references each other to give a very unofficial shared universe feel. For example:

The expanse has had references to the USN Jamestown which is from For All Mankind (it was a model in the expanse in an office of a thing -trying to avoid spoilers - that appears in FAM)

The expanse had a ship named the MCRN Watney (Mark Watney is the name of the character in the Martian)

The Authors of each series have praised the other series and jokingly said that it's the same timeline/universe. I know it's not really but in my head cannon it is and I really LOVE that timeline.

I'd HIGHLY recommend all three as they are my favorite media properties.

The Foundation Series is really great (at least for the first 3/4). Its books obvious but the ideas are so good. The dialogue and characters are a bit basic, but it’s more than made up for by the story.

Yeah I need to read that prior to the Apple TV series launching!

Would add Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy to that last. At the very least, the first one.

It's on my to read list. I need to bump it up to the top I think though!

To be fair in the end it's down to a very small number of individuals a long way from Earth having to deal with extraordinary circumstances. That's hardly unrealistic given the circumstances.