Human Exploration
Human Exploration: Do the Benefits Outweigh the Costs?
With all the recent success of NASA’s unmanned missions, many people are beginning to wonder if human’s presence in space, particularly on Mars, is worth the extra costs and risks associated with it. After all, the rovers and data collectors we already have on various planets are doing a good job, and at a fraction of the price it would cost us to send a human out there. On the other hand, landing humans on Mars could lead to the eventual habituation of the planet, as well as bring a human perspective to the experience unable to be captured by the robots we’re currently trolling the planet. Overall, however there is too much to be gained to let budget issues and risks to astronauts (there are many willing to take them) stand in the way of human space exploration.
While the ability to land a human on Mars is at hand, there are still many small technology advances needed and loose ends to tie. The most important......
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