re: #44 William Lewis

I disagree. The unmanned missions are important but there comes a time when we need someone on the ground looking at the telemetry and saying. “Huh, that’s odd… “

I agree, unmanned missions are great for setting the stage, but a human being can do in minutes what it could take a rover weeks to accomplish. Also, as exciting as robotic missions can be, there is nothing like a manned mission to inspire whole generations of people into science and exploration.