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> There is exactly ONE reason why Apollo was manned by people instead of robots: Because computers, electronics and robotics in the 60s were not up to the task.
by preisschild 2y ago
> There is exactly ONE reason why Apollo was manned by people instead of robots: Because computers, electronics and robotics in the 60s were not up to the task. If todays tech existed back then, I would bet the Apollo rocket would have had exactly one passenger, and that would have been the Lunar Roving vehicle.
But a manned outpost beyond earth would make the logistics for large scale space exploration (even with robots) much more feasible, no?
- usrbinbash 2y ago> But a manned outpost beyond earth would make the logistics for large scale space exploration (even with robots) much more feasible, no? How would it do so exactly? Please give me a technical reason for this assumption. Because, I predict it would do the exact opposite: Keeping humans alive away from Earth eats up an enormeous amount of resources all on its own. Resources that could instead go into building better robots, building more robots, building more rockets.