If we can't keep people alive on a space station, how will we ever spread beyond a single planet? If we don't start trying now, then when?
Depends on your meaning of "we". As of June 17, 2021, the Chinese space station Tiangong, is manned. Chinese manned missions to Mars in 2030 have long been announced and may even be completed earlier than anticipated.
Total nonsense. They wont even make it to the moon by then.
Their Long March 9 rocket need for Mars will barley even fly before 2030, let alone will they make a Mars mission with it.
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I will put my email in my profile for a little bit.
And yes, I wish there were a way you could opt out of paying for manned spaceflight via your taxes, because that would mean that I could opt out of paying for things that I don't want to pay for.
But it doesn't work that way. Deal with it.