Re: Hypothetical massive spacecraft question

From: Jeff Findley (jeff.findley_at_ugs.nojunk.com)
Date: 08/09/04 

Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 09:31:47 -0400

"David Findlay" <david@davsoft.com.au> wrote in message
news:4116f68a$0$16321$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au...
> Here's a hypothetical question. Assuming all the problems involved in
> getting there were solved, could a team of 250+ scientists plus crew,
> working in an artificial gravity environment on board a ship in orbit of
an
> interesting target(Jupiter, Saturn) do more/better/quicker science, than
> what is currently done?

They couldn't do better for the same cost. The type of manned mission
you're talking about would cost orders of magnitudes more than current
unmanned missions. Furthermore, assuming Jupiter or Saturn is your target,
why not send several unmanned vessels each with lots of probes? This could
still be made cheaper than a ship with 250+ crew sent to the same
destination.

Jeff 

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