John Glenn's death leaves me to ask one question

Because there's no need to. There's no real demand for anything in space, and even if there was, as long as it can be done by robots, we're not sending people to do it.

Because the people of the world in general (and the major nation-states in particular - i.e., the U.S, Russia, China, etc.) are too preoccupied with their own present-day little socio-political milieu of international navel-gazing idiocy to really deeply ponder about the ramifications of the global long-term big-picture paradigm-shifting nature of the cosmic milieu we (as at least quasi-sentient beings) find ourselves in.
Let's hope we as a species come to our senses before another era, thousands of years in the future, finally sees the light towards another stellar system's potential home world.

God did not create man in his own image; man created god in his own image.

Probably because of Space travels high costs and many risks to Astronauts.

The space race part of the Cold War fueled the first series of explorations, including of the moon.

Expansion of telecommunications has created a second round of technological expansion, with current efforts aimed at cheaper vehicles into space.

Another part of space exploration has been to other planets in the Solar System. Any expansion into further realms or more detailed solar system exploration will require much more funding, which isn't there at present because there is no need.



Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable

That's an excellent question. I believe we should eventually establish a colony on Mars, and then go from there. This is important to the survival of our species, because then all our eggs will not be in one basket.


😎