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NASA: Humans on Mars by 2035 is 'Primary Focus'
- dekhn 12y agoor you know you could give up on sending humans to space at all, and with the money saved, build a fleet of near-intelligent robots (lots of them) and let them explore space, reporting back when anomalies are found. Seems like a far more reasonable use of the money, scientifically speaking. It seems unlikely that humans truly provide value in excess of the costs of sending them up in a can- the argument that putting a geologist on the moon led to groundbreaking science is suspect. Building a sustained human presence on mars is not even something that could be budgeted to any reasonable degree: we can barely keep people alive in near earth orbit, and that has huge impact on their health.