You are missing my pint on purpose, I believe. My point is that without a definite defined goal in mind, this is a massive waste of effort for a few to have an emotional high to put a few lines in our textbooks.
It has nothing to do with political beliefs. It has everything to do with a cost benefit approach to spending taxpayers’ money, using budgets taht are not fully visible to public scrutiny.
Too bad all the worse-than-useless "social" programs can't be held to the same standard.
NASA does have its own problems, like any organization, but it's worse because it's a government bureaucracy.