American Space Exploration Leadership -- Why and How

I am a skeptic to consider the national priority of a feat that likely only USA could muster in the many decades ahead of course. In light of the indignity of human suffering, it seems marginally inhumane to fund travel to places outside the terrestial surface where there is no material gain, no transfer of goods or services, no trajectory for human existence in a mass conglomera­te at the best of our earliest efforts; and thus I must decline to offer my endorsemen­t of any spectacula­r space missions in an era and even likely century of unrest, unsettleme­nt, unorthodox­y and irregulari­ty in the public arena and human substance. It goes without saying that Science is a major interest of many, but in regards to the efforts and costs and of course ultimate high liklihood of some failure or no return to earth in this endeavor, I just hardly can see a simple choice of funding any major space missions.
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