President's Commission on Moon, Mars and Beyond

Em Sex 13 Fev 2004 18:08, Mitchell James escreveu:
> Takes even less to kill a human in the same situation.

History tells a different story.

We have seen several cases of manned spacecraft that suffered
near-catastrophic failure (Apollo 13 and Mir come to my mind, but I think
that there were others) were much of the electronic and even mechanical
systems of the crafts were disabled, but humans kept "functioning" and
recovered the mission as much as they could in a near-miraculous way.

On the other hand, we have seen robotic missions failing due to really stupid
reasons (e.g., mess with Metric versus Imperial systems) or being crippled
due to extremely simple problems (stuck antennas) that a on-board human would
probably detect/correct easily.