Nope. Not until we have true artificial intelligence with intuition, gut feelings and curiosity.
The robotic missions are fine for preliminary pathfinding but man needs to git er done.
If we don’t bring this nation back from the brink of disaster, any serious discussion of space missions will be about what other countries are doing.
Were manned missions to the Americas a waste?
Mankind is no more able to survive the mass extinctions than species that succumbed in the past. If we stay on Earth and don’t colonize space we’ve adopted an all the eggs in one basket approach to survival. Sooner or later the basket, Earth, may not be able to support us.
Well, manned space missions are merely a moot subject since we have now canceled all further manned missions except for those when the Russians allow us to tag along.
It’s a question from France......don’t answer it as it only encourage them....
Eventually, Earth’s luck is going to catch up with it, in the form of some devastating and destructive disaster, which may be years in coming, or strike quickly. But in either case, having a “bio-library” on Mars could take literally millions of years off of Earth’s biological recovery.
Even if only a few thousand species were annihilated in the disaster, it could very well cause implications throughout the Earth’s environment, a domino effect killing thousands more species, knocking out entire genus or families of life.
Likewise, such a Martian colony could contain exhaustive records of human history, so information is not lost.
The humble beginnings to this are found in a single Mars mission, which transports a nuclear powered tunnel mining robot, that within just a few years mining could dig an extended-stay habitat.
We keep looking for signs of intelligent life on other planets. We have yet to find very much on THIS PLANET. I think we should start here before we start looking elsewhere.
Manned missions with no more politically correct shuttle. Men. Yes, many volks about to see their declines after the default in this depression by way of political correctness believe that men are “a waste of space.”
But that’s going to change within a decade. Enjoy the ride.
No men in space, no Tang!
Robots would never drink that stuff.
Second thought... people don’t need Tang either.
When mile-high glaciers start rolling down from the north, we’re going to wish we had somewhere else to go.
If a baby bird, never leaves the nest it withers and dies............
A certain 11 year old boy, who will remain nameless, was praying for Moon Maidens. Got gray dust and rocks instead. In 1976 at 18 when there was a small chance of Amazonian Women on Mars, we get red dust and rocks. There is the slightest hope of finding those Green Orion Slave Girls, but at 50+, I’m ughhh, I mean that nameless boy is running out of time. Stop wasting my tax dollars and find something of real value.
Just like a bucket of doomed crabbed headed for the boiling pot. When one starts to get out, the others are there to pull him back in and drag him down.
Seems like a good excuse to shove Yuri Gagarin down kids throats for the next 50 years, doesn’t it?