Well, I seriously doubt that technology and money will be available any time soon to get men safely to the planet Mars 
Money comes from the printer.
But that causes inflation. I don't think it would be wise to affect the world economy so that a reality show can happen in other planet.
Doesn't seem to stop them... just look at quantitative easing, though there's not much money to be made from space exploration and it's very costly with little financial reward and america would just like to pump up their defense budget every year where they can make money for corporations on costly wars.