It's compromised by jingoism and money and a hundred damn things but I love the part of us that went to space, that spent untold effort and skill and quite a few lives to step into the most hostile environment imaginable so we could know things.
— Dave Mayo‽ (@pobocks) December 22, 2020
That is indeed the best of humanity. I feel the same. Despite all the complexities and compromises, what a noble, amazing thing to have done. We should have and could have achieved so much more and not let the liberal and conservative pieties (respectively) deny the universe to us.