re: sexing up unmanned vs doing manned

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re: sexing up unmanned vs doing manned

Marsbug — 8/22/2009 10:22:01 PM (archived)

Sawyer you've spoken about this in the past with great and admirable passion, however I'll be surprised if NASA take the approach you suggest anytime soon. However the Google lunar x prize could well be the nascent form of what you suggest.

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A View of the Obama Admin's Revamp of Manned Spaceflight Future - phil - 8/22/2009 4:40:51 PM
- I think the most important questions haven't been addressed. - Jefferson-Washington - 8/24/2009 6:24:31 PM
  - NASA's budget is worth 63 dollars per US citizen per year (n/t) - Raoul - 8/24/2009 7:37:55 PM
  - The Numbers Vary - Marsby - 8/24/2009 7:03:26 PM
- Is it feasible to mothball the ISS instead of deorbiting it? - pwokenyaw - 8/23/2009 6:36:52 PM
  - But if it remains occupied? - Raoul - 8/23/2009 6:42:16 PM
    - Then Russian ESA and Japan will have to keep it running. - Jefferson-Washington - 8/23/2009 11:55:23 PM
- You'll live long enough to see the Chinese on the Moon - Buck Galaxy - 8/23/2009 7:17:04 AM
  - Well.... - Raoul - 8/23/2009 11:40:09 AM
- sexing up unmanned vs doing manned - Sawyer - 8/22/2009 7:06:57 PM
  - re: sexing up unmanned vs doing manned - Doug Ellison - 8/24/2009 9:46:02 AM
  - re: unmanned vs manned - TB - 8/23/2009 3:58:38 AM
    - Somebody said, "you don't send a robot to Paris to taste the wine." - Jeffersoon-Washington - 8/23/2009 11:59:34 PM
      - Do you taste wine by having someone else drink it? - Sawyer - 8/24/2009 12:25:08 AM
    - Horribly naive argument - Sawyer - 8/23/2009 8:09:11 PM
      - re: Horribly naive argument - TB - 8/23/2009 10:09:31 PM
        
        How much would it cost to lift the Astronaut's LEG out of a mess of dirt? - Nick Hoffman - 8/24/2009 3:28:23 AM
        
        Other People - Marsby - 8/24/2009 1:40:32 PM
      - Not True For Mars - Marsby - 8/23/2009 9:11:50 PM
        
        For mars right now the cost per "man hour" is infinite because we can't even get a man there - Sawyer - 8/24/2009 12:17:54 AM
        
        Bull - Marsby - 8/24/2009 1:25:43 PM
      - Scientists do NOT have the monopoly on space exploration - Raoul - 8/23/2009 8:44:02 PM
        
        Real prestige will come from actually using space and making a profit - Sawyer - 8/24/2009 12:44:49 AM
        
        HLLV and sustainable mannes space program - Raoul - 8/24/2009 7:21:44 AM
        
        Well put... - Adam - 8/23/2009 11:38:03 PM
        
        re: Well put... - Raoul - 8/24/2009 6:49:04 AM
        
        Wise thought... - Adam - 8/24/2009 8:02:34 AM
        
        Humans.... - Raoul - 8/24/2009 7:35:51 PM
    - you're comparing one apple to two hundred oranges - pwokenyaw - 8/23/2009 6:19:08 PM
      - And eight hundred pounds of rocks - TB - 8/23/2009 10:17:33 PM
      - If we drop human spaceflight... - Marsbug - 8/23/2009 9:05:20 PM
  - Why manned flights matter - Raoul - 8/23/2009 12:41:06 AM
  - re: sexing up unmanned vs doing manned - Marsbug - 8/22/2009 10:22:01 PM
- Disapointing but not shocking... - Marsbug - 8/22/2009 5:43:45 PM

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