We have been there and done that. We are broke. Stop. The last time we paid for this , instead of claiming the Moon for the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA we babbled about “mankind”. Mankind didn’t pay for it or pull it off. Until we drop all this globalist crap on the space program I shall resist.
That was dumb. We get a ton of benefits from this type of research.
And it is better than paying people to sit on their asses collecting welfare. It means JOBS.