"Just give me a tax cut."
Call me easy to please but a tax cut and a dead Osama and I will be quite content. The "wonder of exploration" is neat. But, in reality, only a few people (including the occasional tag-along Saudi prince and former Senator)actually get to explore and the rest of us get to watch on TV. That being the case, I am more than happy with unmanned vehicles. The view is just as good from my seat.
There are some breaking rumors right now about OBL being dead.
If we're not eventually going to send people, then the unmanned probes are purely academic, cool but pointless.