[Oceander]

This is probably a reasonable decision - human spacefaring should be left to the private explorers and entrepreneurs; to the extent that the taxpayers pay for spaceflight, it should be for robotic missions that return basic science data, and that are orders of magnitude more economic and efficient than human missions are.

[KevinDavis]

Sorry if I don’t feel like paying for pretty pictures in space.. We have done enough with robots. It is time we leave this planet...