Classic example of "cherry-picking" or "selection bias." The reality is this: Many of the technologies we use daily operate on C, through Unix/Linux/Windows, and the whole web runs on JavaScript, among other languages. Yet, we don't see constant mentions or braggings about these accomplishments.

I don’t see it as cherry picking, rather, a celebration of what is possible. We’re all just having fun here, enjoying the different ways to do things in an interesting industry. It’s important to remember that quantity and quality are not the same thing.

Source? The only LISP-in-space I know of was Deep Space 1, some 20 years after the moon landing.

Sorry, I was remembering incorrectly. It was the mars landing, the Pathfinder, not the moon landing.