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SoonerAviator
Some good points. We're making huge technological advances that do let us explore remotely. But have we gone from humanity being explorers to drone operaters?
Well, I suppose not dying or be left on a distant planet without much human interaction would be worth leaving the exploration to the "drone operators". Again, I get that it isn't as romantic as waxing poetic about the moon landing or any number of feats accomplished in manned-space travel, but it just doesn't make any sense to do it. When we have discovered a planet that can be capable of sustaining human life, we will see a return to manned space flight due to needing infrastructure built to accommodate such an undertaking (think Moon Base as jumping off point for deep space travel). Until then, it's just pointless to send astronauts any further out than the ISS as it doesn't likely teach us anything we don't already know and only stands to potentially shorten the lifespan of the astronauts, if not kill them outright.