Re: Another problem with longer flights

On Jan 31, 6:18 am, "Jonathan" <N...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"BradGuth" <bradg...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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On Jan 29, 1:59 pm, jacob navia <ja...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Robots will cost us 0.1% of whatever a human outfitted expedition
would demand.  However, the one-way human mission has terrific
potential.

One-way?  I always thought it odd that Kennedy included the line....
'and returning him safely to Earth' in his moon speech. And later mentioned
if we were to only go 'half way' then we shouldn't go at all. That makes
me think they were considering a one way mission at some point. I'd think
it'd be an assumption to return them, so why even mention it?

Even if manned missions were cheaper, I bet it'd be like the ISS now
where the crew spends 98.6% of their time maintaining the
equipment just to stay afloat.

Put those one-way tickets up for grabs on eBay, and see how much our
NASA gets offered (minimum bid $100M).

People here just don't seem to have any common sense.
I mean have some logic people, we're talking about robots
with a twenty minute delay to deal with, or manned missions with
a TWENTY YEAR DELAY in launch dates to deal with.

Manned missions are destined to be for high value activities, military
and commercial projects. Long duration/distance exploration missions
are for R2D2.  I mean the sensors/cameras etc these days are getting
so good, putting a robot somewhere ...is...putting people there.
Hundreds of millions of people, all looking through the rover's 'eyes'
at the same time.  Far superior to just a couple of explorers on the
ground.  Not to mention the cost.

I can't believe this debate even takes place among thinking people.

Your key phrase "among thinking people" doesn't fit, does it.
However, civil service greed and corruption fits whatever suits their
job security.

Perhaps the one-way manned missions shouldn't be so easily discounted,
as otherwise we need to stick with our trusty rad-hard robotics.

~ BG

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