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From: szabonj@humpback (Nick Szabo)
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Subject: Re: SPACE Digest V9 #207
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Date: 27 Jan 89 21:34:50 GMT
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In article <Added.8XrfC6y00Ui3MefU83@andrew.cmu.edu> HOWGREJ@YALEVM.BITNET (Greg Howard) writes:
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>A manned mission generates much more interest, and
>therefore will receive much more funding, than any unmanned probe (or 2000
>unmanned probes). 

This is a myth.  A poll I recently posted shows that unmanned missions
are more popular than manned.  If NASA replaced the manned program to
empty space with probes to many different and fascinating places 
in the solar system, I suspect public support and government funding would 
increase dramatically.



Nick Szabo              szabonj@fred.cs.washington.edu