nice! All votes are for space. This makes me happy.

It depends what it's for. NASA's structure is fundamentally flawed anyway, with its administration and vision and direction usually changing with a change in Presidential administration. This is detrimental to its long-term planning. Any meaningful and substantial progress in space exploration -- in particular, the human exploration (and colonization) of space -- requires planning without the uncertainty of possible changes in direction every 4 or 8 years.

There is enough money for both.

Sure we should explore space as long as technology develops. I'm conflicted on this issue though. It seems we have developed as much as it seems we will. We're still using the same inefficient fossil fuel exploration. We aren't going to get far doing that. It takes too much money, too much payload, and it takes way too long to go further past our own solar system. You can say, well that depends on the budget, but I really believe that unless our method of exploration changes then we will not get far on fossil fuels.There might be discoveries out there that can greatly benefit us as a species, but will it be worth it to not use any extra money on things like health care or education or infrastructure? When I look at our military budget and tax breaks to the rich and corporate welfare, it makes me sick.

NASA's budget for 2018:

"NASA's proposed 2018 budget is $20.736 billion in 2018 dollars -- roughly equal to NASA's 1963 budget of $2.552 billion."

I wonder what type of inventions or improvements to space travel and exploration there would be if they just doubled that budget. It wouldn't be too hard when the military budget is anywhere from $600b - $1t a year. Recent tax breaks over the next 5 to 6 years for the rich will equate to $2t. Corporate welfare every year is about $100b. That's about $3t just in a span of 5 to 6 years.

Does anyone know of any recent developments from space exploration that have come to fruition? Was there a period of creation and then it just almost stopped or came to a standstill? Or has there been a continuous stream of creations up until even today?

There is plenty of money. The issue is how it is prioritized.

if there was a choice of course on earth but we can do both as previous responder said...of course we could secure all our airports with $5 billion

NASA has done a poor job of educating the public on just how many advances have been made in science, actuated in and around the space program. New products in our lives today abound from new drug therapies to chemical engineering.