The benefits of aircraft carriers are obvious. Flight to Mars?
Superprofit industry of the next generation. As now simple cosmonautics, remaining from the previous one. Communications and navigation satellites bring such a bubble that even geopolitics is cracking. The same money from generation to generation will bring the mastered Mars. Don’t ask, how exactly, mobile phones in Gagarin’s time couldn’t predict either. It always works, and you never know in advance how.