[Man of the Right]

Manned space flight is an anachronism. It's a 1940s concept. It's been superceded by the computer revolution, robotics, miniaturization.

[AmishDude]

It's all about satellites. Television, mobile phones and a whole host of technologies depend on them. You've got to send people up there sometime.

I'd love to go up there. If they told me the failure rate was 90%, I'd be saying "How do I zip up this spacesuit?"

[BlazingArizona]

Manned space flight is an anachronism. It's a 1940s concept. It's been superceded by the computer revolution, robotics, miniaturization.

So what would you have done when the Hubble mirror needed replacing 'out of the box'? Abandoned it so that we would have never gotten a single image?

Chickening out on technology the moment a problem occurs is a 1970's concept.