Re: Why NASA should focus on the Moon, not Mars - Henry Spencer

On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:43:31 -0800 (PST), Totorkon
<aertrion@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

By the 2020s, when the first expedition
might be expected to land even with a crash program, robotic explorers
will be able to carry out 90% of the science that a human team could,
over thousands of miles, at just a few percent the cost.

Facts not in evidence. The MER chief scientist has gone on record as
saying what Spirit and Opporunity do in a day, a human could do in
minutes.

Just where is this amazing new technology going to come from that will
speed up robots, make them enormously more intelligent, and make them
vastly cheaper than the $2+ billion MSL, and why is it that none of
these amazing technology improvements can be applied to manned
missions to make them more efficient?


Brian
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