On May 22, 10:21*am, Dean wrote:
On Wednesday, May 22, 2013 8:41:39 AM UTC-4, Jochem Huhmann wrote:
Fred J. McCall writes:

You sound very much like all the people in the fifties expecting huge

space stations in LEO with crews of specialists staring through

telescopes. Didn't work out this way and the reasons for that are even

more obvious today and more important for missions to other planets.

You sound like all the toaster fans everywhere at any time of your

choosing. *If people aren't going, stop wasting my money.

Thanks for confirming that it's not about "science" for you. You want

people going and all the talk about science is just an excuse.

Nothing wrong with wanting manned missions, by the way. Just don't

pretend it's about science. Because if you do so every mission proposal

that is looked at from a cost/benefit POV will be shot down immediately

then.

Well, it's not me you need to convince anyway.

* * * * Jochem

Of course it's not just about science! *It's about exploration and human curiosity. *To paraphrase why we should send people to Mars: *"Because it's there"!

Currently the bucks arent available to send humans.......

but good science can be done robotically