Are you unfamiliar with the many world-changing technologies and inventions that have come about because of the needs and drivers of the human space program? On what basis do you form the belief that we would not continue to develop and benefit from new world-changing innovations despite all historical evidence that says otherwise?
A huge amount of scientific invention is made incidentally to another goal. It's intensely myopic to disregard that.
A huge amount of scientific invention is made incidentally to another goal. It's intensely myopic to disregard that.