I sneaked off work today with my wife and we watched In The Shadow Of The Moon, being screened as part of a local film festival. It was brilliant! Amazing footage, very well put together, and the astronaut interviews are really good --- moving, funny, and insightful. I'm not a big fan of manned spaceflight but you can certainly see the appeal. Recommended.
Why are you not a big fan of manned space flight?
ReplyDeleteI'm not either. I think it's a massive waste of time and resources. Send out probes I say. :-)
Never send a human to do a robot's job!
ReplyDeleteManned spaceflight sort of made sense in the 60s, when robotics technology was a lot more primitive. But now manned missions are basically joyrides; as you say, they're massively wasteful compared to robotic missions for the same goals.
Actually I'm still in favour of human space travel, but it should be one-way missions delivering colonists to self-sustaining habitats constructed by earlier waves of robots.