Return to the Moon: Mending Fences Between Exploration and Science

Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: Return to the Moon: Mending Fences Between Exploration and Science

# 9288 byspider_boris@... on Dec. 10, 2006, 6:08 a.m.
Member since 2021-10-03

> Scientists have long made it clear that the best
> place for a permanant
> outpost for lunar exploration is on Earth;
> controlling probes on the moon by
> remote. With few exceptions most exploration can be
> done with the tens of
> thousands of robotic probes the budget of a manned
> mission could pay for.

What seems to be forgotten in this point of view is
that if human beings do not eventually go themselves,
then all those robotic missions were pointless.

Ed
http://robot_guy.blogspot.com