Is traveling to space just a waste of time?

no traveling in space is not a waste of time.people are looking for life and doing experiments and if ur an astronaut u get more than 250'000 bucks when u come back.its really satisfying i want to be an astronaut when im old enough.u have to be 5'4 or more feet tall.

Traditionally exploration involved the prospect of profit. Big profits. Once it was discovered that Mars and Venus were uninhabitable, the exploration of space ceased to have any use other than scientific. There is nothing in the solar system worth going to and picking up. Costs are just too high. Science is nice, but not particularly critical Personally I cannot conceive a use for knowing the temperatures on Titan or the atmospheric pressure on Ganymede. But at least in the great scheme of things robotic probes are relatively cheap, provide a lot of data to keep astronomers, astrophysicists and their graduate students busy, and they don't involve blowing things up. Manned space flight is a huge waste of time and money. Especially using rockets. Rockets are not the way to explore the solar system. They CAN be used but rockets are a technological dinosaur. They don't have a future. Until mankind can construct a space tether and develop more effective propulsion systems, we should forget manned space travel.

For humans yes, but robotic spacecraft are not subject to human error (except by the people who programed them).

Trouble is humans get that wrong quite often, just look at the original Mars polar lander which was lost during its landing phase (reborn as Phoenix) when NASA programmed its descent to the surface in yards and feet instead of meters.

NASA need a good boot up the backside for wasting all that money. Hope he/she got the got the sack and was sued by the Europeans who had programmed their parts of the craft correctly in meters.

Thank goodness there were no humans aboard as they would all have perished.

No. We do not have the technology to explore much of Space, but in the future, who knows? We can send out other robotic technology to see if there is life in other places of the solar system. We would not be educated that there were seven other planets right now if we just gave up on exploring.

no absolutly not but it is a waste of money

No, because certain chemicals react differently in a weightless environment. So what if the cures to aids,cancer and other deadly diseases can be discovered in a space station.