Re: Had it been a robotic mission, ...

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PhilW — 7/18/2001 8:51:53 AM (archived)

You're being very literal. I of course agree that crewed missions are orders of magnitude inherently more complex.
Let's take Galileo and the stuck antenna. Coulda been freed by astro intervention.
Mars Observer, a crew not asleep at the switch woulda noticed the bad nav info.
My point is that the "learning how to operate in space" justification for ISS (a.k.a. SkyLab II) is way overdone.

-philw (favors robotic missions to the planets & asteroids)

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Astronauts Overcome Airlock Problems on SkyLab II - PhilW - 7/18/2001 7:58:10 PM
- Re: Astronauts Overcome Airlock Problems on SkyLab II - Raoul - 7/18/2001 9:07:19 AM
- Had it been a robotic mission, ... - Larry J - 7/18/2001 8:38:12 AM
  - Fixing things - Gary - 7/18/2001 5:12:55 PM
    - Any long duration space mission is going to have failures - Larry J - 7/19/2001 1:31:16 PM
      - Best solution for reliability - Tom Brosz - 7/19/2001 7:37:48 PM
        
        Re: Best solution for reliability - phil - 7/19/2001 7:53:02 PM
        
        It's a good idea - Larry J - 7/19/2001 8:10:26 AM
    - stupid typo [Justin, please fix this] - Gary - 7/18/2001 5:24:46 PM
  - Re: Had it been a robotic mission, ... - PhilW - 7/18/2001 8:51:53 AM
    - Re: Had it been a robotic mission, ... - Larry J - 7/18/2001 9:12:17 AM

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