Kelly McDonald wrote:

Yet Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin did more science on the moon in
thier few hours on the surface than all previous unmanned missions put
together.

Of course, there were no unmanned missions that had tried to do what
they did. (Sample gathering, high res photography in particular.) In
fact, serious surface science was *deferred* until Apollo and not even
attempted on Surveyor.

Or to put it simply; there is not a significant database of unmanned
lunar science to compare to the manned effort. Any claim like the one
quoted above is nothing but a strawman.

D.
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