all that money would do more good if science and governments spent it developing ways of providing health, education, and environment needs

actually - the money spent for space travel HAS gone a long way towards providing research into health, education, environmental concersn, manufacturing, and many many many new products. There are literally thousands of products that would probably NOT have been developed if not for the space program - and many thousands more that have been developed from THOSE products and processes. Plus the income and revenue from the same.