[Kip Lange]

A robot could take soil samples. No robot could tell you what it felt like to actually *stand on Mars*; no robot could tell that to schoolchildren when it returned. No robot would have *fun* being on Mars.

[FITZ]

I guess. If someone really wants to go and understands the risks, then more power to them. Still it seems almost boring to sit confined in a small space with several other people for days on end and not be able to get out and walk around when you feel like it.