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From: jeffd@ficc.ferranti.com (Jeff Daiell)
Newsgroups: comp.robotics
Subject: Re: Divert NASA budget to robotics
Message-ID: <C9L44E8@xds8.ferranti.com>
Date: 11 Jul 90 12:39:48 GMT
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In article <6907@eos.UUCP>, woody@eos.UUCP (Wayne Wood) writes:
 
> *WE* need men in space.   Mankind cannot stay on this planet and hope to
> survive forever.  We are already starting to feel the population pressures
> and also the economic pressures from the constant drain on non-renewable
> resources.


You assume that only Government can put persons in space.  But that's
not true.  So cutting out that part of NASA's budget used solely
to 'upgrade' from unmanned to manned exploration would *not* mean the
end of manned space trips, just those the taxpayers get pinched for.


Jeff 


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