Dazed and Confused in Hampton
Other Voices: Forget Mars; let NASA focus on its mission, opinion
“Try to imagine cramming men and women in a space vehicle for years, landing it, exploring the hostile Mars environment in bulky protective gear, cramming back into the capsule and launching for that long return trip! Most scientists could not endure this trip. The astronauts would not learn as much as scientists controlling robots.”
Editor’s note: Gasp! Those fragile scientists! How could we ever think to send them into space! The author of this rant claims to have worked at NASA – and NACA before that. Given his overt hatred of human spaceflight he must have had a truly terrible time over the years. He must have been really upset when America did the impossible and landed humans on the moon – and eclipsing all of the previous surface robotic work in a single mission.