Look I agree Squires is exaggerating, but I expect not by as much as you would like. We have abilities no robot will ever have without also being as susceptible to dangers as we are now. Yes we will use machines on Mars but they will not being the scientific work over humans. They will be aids and transports.
Robotics and technologies are influenced by our activities in space for sure. Whether robots would exist if we hadn't dreamed of a better future is really the question not if we never had space programs.
Man in space is part of that dream it make no sense to dream of machines in space without man there as well. Unless you believe humanity has no worth as a species.
The actual costs benefits of man in space doing science is comparable to robots in space and has lasting effects were we don't see much on Surveyor or Ranger we do see lots of excitement and events around Apollo.
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- Is man in space scientifically useless?
- "Yield to the logic of the situation"--LCDR Spock (UFP-SF)
- There is more to life than Science.
- There's not much of a story if there's no one to peer and twiddle. (n/t)
- Currently 99% of effort with manned space is on survival not science
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- re: Is man in space scientifically useless?
- Ask the people studying the hundreds of pounds of Moon rocks brought back by Apollo