Re: Back to the moon? When?
- From: Quadibloc <jsavard@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 04:53:02 -0800
Ian Parker wrote:
Is there any point in manned spaceflight at all? Logically no.
Everything can be done by robots at a far lower cost. The only point
in manned spaceflight is if colonization is on the table. Personally I
feel this to be a pipedream as far as the foreseeable future is
concerned.
The Apollo missions actually proved why everything can't be done by
robots. The astronauts were able to pick and choose which lunar
samples to send back, and so much more was learned from their samples
than those sent back by the Lunokhod missions.
But what robots _can_ do, indeed, they do accomplish at much lower
cost. And given the great advances in computers since the 1960s, I
suppose that a Mars sample return mission could return samples picked
up by a Mars rover in response to instructions from Earth.
But those Mars samples really ought to be studied in a lab on the Moon
or in orbit, because there could be life on Mars.
John Savard
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