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Like everyone else I wanted to go to space as a kid. My dreams were dashed year by year as I picked up habits that barred me from going, dropping out of highschool probably the biggest one.
Now I realize going to space fucking sucks. This video was filmed in "the vomit comet", a converted passenger plane that fly's in a way to mimic weightlessness. Its like being on a roller coaster dropping and a lot of people puke, leading to the nickname. The ISS is essentially in constant freefall, so your stomach will always be like that and you just have to get over it. It smells horrible because no one can take a proper shower. Taking a shit hasn't been perfected yet either so loose turds floating around is a common problem.
You lose muscle mass and all your joints drift apart while you're up there. Just returning to normal gravity makes your entire body hurt inside and out. Reentry flights don't come down gently though, you go from nothing to multiple g's immediately.
Space fucking sucks and I'm glad I decided to smoke weed instead of exploring essentially nothing.
Ummm... keep living your best life, I suppose. I won't tell you that you are wrong, but I will say that I personally disagree with your point of view, and I would actually die to explore "essentially nothing."
The ISS is a multi decades-old vehicle that is already operating past it's original exploration date. Let's see what we can do when we build using new construction methods and design philosophies with technology from the 21st century, far larger fairing capacities and also with 20 20 hindsight.
Also the moon. We're gonna build a base on the moon. Which does have some gravity so some of those issues will go away or otherwise be mitigated (there's enough gravity to make things fall down so that's toilets and showers sorted).
I'm all for space exploration, but I'm also with you- let other people who can take that sort of stuff do it. Not to mention strapping themselves to what's essentially a directed bomb.