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>Because when you're risking human lives you want to have as much data beforehand as possible, and because we have the capability to send robots now but not astronauts.
But why? If you want to minimise risk at all costs then don't send humans. And now vs later is not a great argument.

>So does exploring our own solar system. Only difference is one can happen this century and the other is so unimaginably distant it's not worth mentioning
And you're totally blinded by only having one sample. Exoplanets have shown that the Solar System totally fails to represent the true range and diversity of systems. More progress has been made studying planet formation in the last 20 years than all before that, because now there are statistics and now planet formation can be studied directly (like this example from the VLT).