The shuttle missions circled the earth about 21,000 times, round and around...It basically then turned into a supply and pizza delivery service for ISS.
Unmanned spacecraft and scopes like James Webb have and will takes us way further.
Without some earth shattering discovery which would allow man to travel light speed or 100x light speed, wormhole travel etc, man will likely never even leave our tiny solar system let alone travel within or beyond our own galaxy. Could happen, but not for centuries at best.
Scopes like Jame Webb will discover things way beyond what manned spaceflight is even capable of now or anytime in the distant future. Unmanned craft have already gone where man cannot due to extreme conditions.
Due to physics/distances etc, it's just the way it is.
>>> Unmanned spacecraft and scopes like James Webb have and will takes us way further.
Oh... so its not an orbital scope like hubble?
That makes sense.
Still a big gamble... just one little rock on an intercept course at even the lowest of average space object velocities means game over.