Of course space exploration isn't a waste of money. There are people who will say that the money would be better spent on tackling poverty, but an extremely large amount of time and effort is already expended in that area; if we always followed that line of thinking, we would still be subsistance farmers.pace exploration is not a waste of money anymore than the explorations to the new world were hundreds of years ago. As for the perception that space explorations monies could be used elsewhere: The same could be said for all sorts of programs.