“Good, campaign for that then, and more power to you. Just don’t try to rob me to fund socialism for aerospace engineers in the meantime.”
Governmental funding of space technologies and their applications to the Defence and General Welfare of the Republic are powers authorized by the Constitution:
Section. 8.
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States
Sure, that might be a proper role for the federal government, but it’s still a fruitless venture, as far as the primary mission is concerned, when they are chasing pipe dreams like colonizing Mars.
You want to live in fantasy land? Do it on your own dime. We are about to collapse under our debt, we can’t afford to chase rainbows with the public treasury.