I hate it when people are like "we shouldn't be doing space exploration, we should be feeding/helping our people".

We could absolutely be doing BOTH. There's no reason we couldn't help everyone AND do cool scientific exploration.

First, of course, we'd have to stop warring with each other and giving all our money to a tiny handful of psychopaths.

@ChrisJagged

Years back there were articles I'd yoogull for these people showing the return from space as something like 7-1. Every dollar spent to-space, returned 7 times into the economy through the tech, science, knowledge and advancements those excursions and research cost.

I'm sure they're still there.