Were manned missions to the Americas a waste?
No, but they were evil, eeevviiillll, in allowing now-dead white man to enslave and exterminate the peaceful natives who lived in perfect harmony with each other and nature until the Europeans arrived.
Human sacrifice? What human sacrifice? It was their culture, and therefore benign since all cultures but ours are equal and beneficial.
/channeling junior moonbat
Were manned missions to the Americas a waste?
Well ............................
To hear the anti-Western Leftists tell it, YES. It lead to "nothing but the spread of disease, slavery, genocide, and exploitation."