You can explore the universe without traveling the universe; JWST, DESI, LIGO, Hubble, etc telescopes, interferometers, and other detection and measurement devices are giving us a ton of data reshaping our understanding of the universe.
I do wonder what the voter demographics of the army are though. How many of them blame chunderhead for turning on their allies, and how many of then will follow him to the ends of the earth.
Trump has treated the upper ranks with contempt. He fired the admiral in charge of the White House pandemic office because that officer was pals with Miley, another general Trump holds in contempt. He fired soem high ranking folks when he was re-inaugurated. Don't expect to see the military saving him