Losers from Obama's proposed 2011 budget

Jeff Findley wrote:
That's a tad different. In the 60's, having a man in the Apollo CM to keep
an eye on things was necessary due to the lack of automation at the time.
Specifically, lack of automated rendezvous and docking technology meant that
someone had to be in the CM to dock it to the LM ascent stage. Automation
has come a long way since then. If the Russians and ESA can do automated
rendezvous and docking, why not the US?

The Russian system had real reliability problems, and at least in the
early days, the cosmonauts had to disengage it and complete the docking
manually around 50% of the time.
Anyway, this is probably a moot discussion anyway, as it looks like the
Moon mission is going bye-bye.

Pat