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From: pasek@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Michael A. Pasek)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Are We Exploring Space? (also: Manned vs. Unmanned)
Summary: I just wanna go!
Keywords: Manned, Exploration
Message-ID: <1784@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM>
Date: 14 Dec 89 15:35:43 GMT
Expires: 22 Dec 89 05:00:00 GMT
References: <6795@shlump.nac.dec.com> <1989Dec12.022557.6690@utzoo.uucp> <14990@bfmny0.UU.NET> <1989Dec13.044849.12140@utzoo.uucp> <14994@bfmny0.UU.NET> <11154@thorin.cs.unc.edu>
Reply-To: pasek@c10sd3.StPaul.NCR.COM (M. A. Pasek)
Followup-To: sci.space
Organization: NCR Comten, Inc.
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In article <11154@thorin.cs.unc.edu> leech@cezanne.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech) writes:
>In article <14994@bfmny0.UU.NET> tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) writes:
>>     .....Bootprints are a prestige frill..........
>....Robots are better suited to remote sensing missions........

From my perspective (No, I'm not a "scientist" with 20 PhD's ;-) ), the ONLY
reason for doing anything in space is to allow us (read "humans") to someday
be able to travel and live there.  All the preliminaries, such as "data
gathering" or "exploration" or "research", are just that: PRELIMINARIES.
If you want to get the public behind space exploration, then keep the final
goal (human travel/settlement in space) at the highest priority at all times.
All the other goals (heliosphere exploration, extra-solar exploration, etc.)
will happen -- not as ends in themselves, but as a byproduct of human
space travel and settlement.

Just my $.02.

M. A. Pasek          Switching Software Development         NCR Comten, Inc.
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