Comment by ApolloFortyNine
5 days ago
Even if you think Space travel is worth the money (which I personally do), adding humans to the mix makes projects incredibly more expensive. Even in the realm of space travel and research, sending humans is a questionable use of the money.
Sports would also be much cheaper without humans.
The most important (if not entertaining) things you can do in space don't involve humans. Telescopes, communications, earth observation, sending probes to distant bodies, etc.
It's nice that we can send humans to space and it's good to keep that capability going so that the knowledge doesn't die. But the unmanned missions tend to pull the weight of actually accomplishing useful things. Humans just get in the way.
Most people don't find those things interesting unless people are directly involved in them.
Turns out I don't understand the point sports either.
People are going to have to die in order for us to increase our space knowledge. It sucks but thats just how it be, it requires humans for most of it.