[Razengan]

I've always fantasized about drifting out there in person.

Wouldn't a human operator in such spacecraft gather more data by being able to reorient instruments in realtime etc. and spotting minute phenomena that would otherwise be missed?

If NASA or Elon Musk or anyone has considered such a mission but can't imagine asking for volunteers for it, let me know. I don't need a ride back.

[Santosh83]

Keeping you alive for the kinds of durations that matter (that is decades) won't be technologically or economically possible for the present.

[Razengan]

Even better.