Probably still pissed about the superconducting supercollider cancellation. Give up manned space travel for now and you are very likely to give it up for far longer than planned due to the loss of qualified personnel. Being willing to do that shows a total lack of concern for humanities future in space.

The seeming poor performance of manned space flight in scientific breakthroughs is not through a lack of usefullness, it's a problem of lack of assigning usefull missions. When The leaders of Martian lander teams say a human could do more in a short order of time than the robots in months and years it's ridiculous to act like robots are the best space scientists just because they are cheap and expendable. Look at the science return versus cost. The idea that manned missions have produced little science totally ignores all the major contributions of hubble which would not have been possible without human servicing. Send humans to a site to do science and not stunts with the tools to improvise and you will get far more science for the buck than any robot will deliver.

If robots were better at science than humans there would be no human scientists. It's just that simple. Robots are a tool that expands human capability not a replacement. Robots are also cheap because they have limited capabilities. Human missions will be far more capable as well as adaptable.

Regards,
Mark