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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 |
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