The continuation of Large Scale Fuel-Consumers is happily waning; it was a sixties thing. In the interim, computer technology has blossomed, and brought us the wholesome alternative of the very small.

We can now send our small robots with their modest needs anywhere in the solar system. To a large extent we have done so, even landing on some of those Jupiter moons that Galileo was punished for seeing.

This is cheaper and far more interesting than watching bozos in diapers play golf on the Moon.