I can see sending men back to the moon. A moon base actually makes some sense, too. But, as for exploration of deeper space by humans, it is relatively worthless. On human space trips, a large percentage of the equipment, expense and systems are solely to keep the people alive. We could likely do 10 equivalent unmanned missions for every manned mission. We should be sending probes all over the solar system with new instrumentation to see what is going on out there. They could be built with continuous power supplies and long-life components intended to survive 100 or more years. What would we know about earth if we based our knowledge of the planet on a handful of observations over a few years?
Sorry we have send enough probes... Technology will get better. Besides people who support that robots should do the exploring not humans are wimps..
Because its there. I don’t want to be limited to the earth because a bunch of weenies think its worthless.
“We could likely do 10 equivalent unmanned missions for every manned mission.”
And imagine if we develop virtual interface technology so that the probes can create images and experiences as if we are actually there.
Surround wide screen, three dimensional with gesture interface.