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The human body dwindles and deteriorates in zero g. After a lifetime of observing this childish fantadt of flight and escape and science fiction, the obvious conclusion is that it will never happen. We are stuck in our sins on this world, and the only way off is repentance.

Nah.. God wills it. at least eventually.

exploration and establishing human life in his image spread aloft in the stars are part of our destiny.

from Psalm 8:
"What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him?

For You have made him a little lower than the angels, And You have crowned him with glory and honor.

You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands;

You have put all things under his feet,"

In our current fallen state we are NOT "THERE" yet. But God is not done with His most prized possession and creation... "now beloved it doth not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when HE appears, we shall be LIKE HIM for we shall see Him as He is."

or the new testament version from Hebrews 2:

" What is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You graciously and helpfully care for and visit and look after him?
7 For some little time You have ranked him lower than and inferior to the angels; You have crowned him with glory and honor and set him over the works of Your hands...
8 For You have put everything in subjection under his feet. Now in putting everything in subjection to man, He left nothing outside [of man's] control. But at present we do not yet see all things subjected to him [man].
9 But we are able to see Jesus, Who was ranked lower than the angels for a little while, crowned with glory and honor because of His having suffered death, in order that by the grace (unmerited favor) of God [to us sinners] He might experience death for every individual person. -- amplified bible

Of course that is for those who give credence to the veracity of the Scriptures... but you are quite right however in that our current failure rate is consistent with a fallen race, that does not yet have, know or do all that we should... including morally and scientifically.

Rocket science is quite unforgiving. and wisdom REQUIRES humility. We are fallen, we don't know what we are doing... we go the wrong way in culture, morals, social, scientific and behavioral constructs.

We may be going to the stars... part way... as part as our underlying programming from God "BE in our image have dominion and multiply" and such is part of the human mandate, to a race God knew in advance would fall into sin. But one day, nevertheless, we will arise... and do really great things...

The human body dwindles and deteriorates in zero g

Which is why any long term space going vehicle will have a rotating habitation core, such as we planned with the Variable Gravity Research Facility many decades ago.

ISS is a research facility to characterize the environment...and how to counteract any negative effects.

There is gravity on other objects in the universe.

It is not a childish fantasy to wish to go out and inhabit space.

The pursuit of new horizons generally improves things we didn’t know we could improve.