Re: Juno yes, Moonrise no

In article <119v6svhja7gvfb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Pat Flannery <flanner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Think it through- if you can return samples from the Moon with unmanned
> robots, why do you have to send people there?

To establish a base, of course. Why would anyone think that a lunar
base is about returning samples? Nobody returns samples of vacuum from
ISS... OK, maybe that's a bad example, but still.

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