Jeff Findley wrote:
"Jacques van Oene" wrote in message
...

A big advantage of space robots is...


More important still, although
expensive to design and produce, their loss is always preferable to that

of

an astronaut.


Although no one wants to loose an astronaut, robots are still inferior to
having a person on site who can work in real time.

The two aren't mutually exclusive. Humans _and_ robots on site could
allow working in real time and cut the EVA time.



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