Launch thousands of probes, robots, robocars, etc. at the sun, the planets, the Oort cloud, and various interesting comets and asteroids.
We'll learn a lot more about our solar system and the cosmos in general for less money.
We won't be doing any significant travel into space until we've merged with robots anyway. So why try and put feeble human flesh up there?
Robotic probes are about as emotionally and intellectually satisfying as watching a GCI movie or a Corona beer commercial made at a beach vs actually being there.
And when the big rock comes or some crazy starts a full scale nuclear war then what? The human race will be trapped and likely extinct because short sighted people were so worried about money that race survival was ignored.
Money is not the issue. Survival and hope are. Humans are explorers not TV watchers. You’ve been watching/reading too much low end scifi.
“No more humans in space.”
That’ll never happen.
We won't be doing any significant travel into space until we've merged with robots anyway. So why try and put feeble human flesh up there?
The Queen should have sent the Coldstream Guards to stop Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary from going to Mt. Everest.
You know, we should send time agents back to Andalusia to stop Columbus from going to the New World.
This exploring thing is a useless waste. Humans need to know their place.