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

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longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away."
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