Asimov promulgated that fiction also.
Why? What a giant waste of taxpayer money. What will we learn? What economic military or strategic benefit would we realize?
Pay off the debt, cut unearned entitlements, toss out illegal aliens, cut regulation, reduce Fedgov size and redundancy, build a stronger military with the monies not wasted. Invest in jobs ( that have real economic impact).
I’d support a to and fro space launch vehicle that enables us to place important stuff into orbit etc, but the deep space quest is a waste of my resources.
Maybe NASA needs to go, give that role to the USAF/USN.