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May 21st 13, 01:39 PM posted to sci.space.history
Jeff Findley[_2_]
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Drive on Opportunity
In article 36e42f8f-c48b-4bd7-9fa9-
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Selected during 2.5 hours of EVA time. And for much more money.
Using people as biorobots is hideously expensive since you need to keep
them breathing and drinking and eating and comfortable during years of
no science being done at all.
plus the humans exhausts, like defecation, urine, bacteria, etc etc
will contaminate the samples you are trying to collect
On Apollo missions they weren't, you ignorant git! The Apollo lunar
samples were sealed inside vacuum tight sample containers that contained
*triple* redundant seals. They were definitely *not* open when the LEM
was re-pressurized.
ALSRC, Apollo Lunar Sample Return Container, Apollo 11
http://airandspace.si.edu/events/apo...oartifact.cfm?
id=A19710814000
If we did such a good job on Apollo missions trying to prevent any sort
of cross-contamination of samples, why do you think that Mars would be
any different?
Jeff
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