Putting people in space is very expensive & of little or no use.
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Even just the satellites require manned maintenience every once in a while.
You like eating? Clean water? Saving the whales? Preventing landmines from blowing up kids? Oil spill clean up? Cancer early detection systems? "Smart" surgical tools?Fetal activity monitors? Camera-on-a-chip technology? Aeronautical safety technologies? VR remote control technologies? Scratch resistant glasses? Rescue worker technologies? Any cordless technology?
Home heating insulation technologies?
As long as you dont eat,take a bath, go outside,get sick, get old, dont use electricity, dont use money, dont make phone calls, dont play sports, dont fly on an airplane, dont watch TV, dont use a computer, your property is immune to fire,
then you are abolutely correct.
Manned missions in space are useless to you.
Since you are posting on a forum I suspect you are shooting par for the course however.