Robots or humans: time to grow up?
Maybe it is
I find the arguments in favor of robotic exploration increasingly compelling. We could continue to inch along, forcing our flimsy bodies into space at huge cost, or we could soar into the cosmos by robotic proxy.
There's a sense, of course, that human spaceflight excites more public enthusiasm, but haven't we already seen that after a relatively short burst of interest the public eventually turns back to baseball and soap operas, and starts to wonder why NASA is spending so much of it's money? It's much easier to fly robots under the budgetary radar, isn't it?