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I love space exploration. But space travel by human bags-of-mostly-water is nonsense. Apollo was awe-inspiring and enthralling, but the science that was done didn't remotely justify the cost insanity. Of course, science wasn't the point of Apollo, but it was its cover story.
The Shuttle wasn't even space travel at all: it was an attempt at exploiting low-Earth orbit at cost. And it failed at that, as it was really, REALLY expensive for what it did. Private space players now do that for cheaper, and it's really not inspiring.
Since then, probes have been doing space exploration on humanity's behalf and they've been doing a much better job that we'll ever do in person.
Traditional meatbag mankind is hopelessly Earth-bound, and probably won't ever leave its cradle. Space travel will be done by humanity's offspring: the machines.