The Apollo program was a stunt. You can say that it took a man to land on the moon, because NASA wasn’t capable of building a robot to do it. But the Russians

The Apollo program was a stunt. You can say that it took a man to land on the moon, because NASA wasn’t capable of building a robot to do it. But the Russians were able to achieve this a few years later with their moon rover. Although it was more of a dumb luck gravity drop, and hope you don’t land on a cliff, and topple over and die. Then, the Chinese were able to do it, with an even more sophisticated robot, that was able to make automatic landing decisions like a human. This is the ultimate moon lander. Given the choice between humans vs. robots, I’d take a robot any day, to land myself on the moon. You don’t have to worry about pesky humans making emotional life or death decisions in the heat of the moment, and jeopardizing your mission.