re: #158 windsagio

Wrong. You use moon program technology today. No program, no technological advance. Unmanned is great for where we can not yet go. I love it. I could care less if we walk on the moon. I want the fuel source, the low gravity platform for research. Much of that can be robotic. We have to learn how to live off earth. The moon can teach us that. Way easier than Mars. We need manned and unmanned. Sorry, there seems to be no gender neutral word to use there.

But nothing beats a trained human on the spot for exploration or repairs. How did we fix Hubble? With people. How will we move certain industrial processes off earth? With people. How do you get them there? Heavy lift, that we already had in the 1960’s.