The lettuce-growing experiment on the ISS has captured attention in the media recently. That utterly worthless experiment cost (it took over a year to grow lettuce that the astronauts ate most of in one meal) nearly as much as the entire Rosetta mission. It's a great example of the screwy priorities used to allocate space exploration funds. The Rosetta mission is worth, scientifically, many thousands of lettuce-growing experiments. There is an almost infinitely long list of unfunded robotic explorer mission proposals. But the money goes to lettuce growing, and other manned missions instead. Stupid, stupid, stupid...
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