This tweet makes an excellent inadvertent argument against manned space flight.https://twitter.com/JimBridenstine/status/1171523582209359875 …
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We need to colonize to give us more time to get it all right
There were 5 unmanned US lunar landings *before* Apollo, in the Surveyor program (which also had two crashes). Heck, Apollo 12 (second landing with crew) retrieved parts from Surveyor 3.
TBF, @elonmusk has been pretty clear that his interest in manned space transport is to establish off-Earth sustainable human life. (We can argue if this is due to manmade issues better addressed here vs outside existential threats.)
But agree that no point in manned exploration!
Elon Musk talks a lot of shit and doesn't deliver, so I don't consider him a serious voice on space exploration or colonization
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