Pat Flannery wrote:


(snip) Under
Dan Goldin, NASA seemed to spread itself out in many strange and
fruitless directions (Space Camp and robotics submarines zooming around
under ice caps, as well as walking for a few feet down the interior of a
Antarctic volcano immediately come to mind)

Pat, I agree with most of this. But it seems to me research in
teleoperated robots that can endure extreme environments would be very
useful for space exploration.

As much as I like lizards and snakes, I don't want NASA spending money
on their study. But I would like to see Nasa funding research on robotics.



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