For a trillion dollars, what kind of results can one expect to get with manned versus unmanned?
Which would be better, a couple manned missions, possibly ending in tragedy, or 1000 unmanned missions (10% of which fail), each advancing the art further, based on earlier discoveries?
Jefferson said in his inaugural that the West would last for thousands upon thousands of generations of honest, moral, and hard-working farmers. Ignoring that the West as a frontier barely lasted for four generations, how long would a Space Frontier last if it were ever opened by establishing private property rights?
If I said what I was thinking, I'd get flamed to ashes.
July 4th 2021 10am Eastern time.
The nation cheared as Mars 1 made a safe landing on the Red planet after a 10 month trip.
United States Navy Commander Sally McNally became the first human on Mars a half hour later. ;)