The US is the only country that cares and even then it barely does.
Here are some examples of things that we could do today with modern tech but don’t because funding
>Launch loop (platform designed to cheaply get items into space, cutting launch costs by 90% per lb) EST $10 Billion
>4 man trip to Mars $4 billion
>Moon base meant for permanent research, mining, ect $50 Billion
These all sound expensive at first until you remember
>US spent $100 billion on a failed black education program
>China spends $85 billion a year for online shills
>America spent 1.5 trillion on a failed airplane
>US spent $200 billion on the Y2K scare