It's weird how Apollo 13 has been remembered as a triumph of human space flight, when it is really the best argument against it. Put briefly, the problem is this: no one is willing to leave astronauts to die in space, no matter what the cost of saving them. Which is human of us!https://twitter.com/apollo_50th/status/1249897335171104770 …
Did you think I mistook it for a historical novel? The point of citing it is that it has a psychologically realistic response to a scenario where someone is marooned. If you think it's unrealistic, then I'll cite the Thai cave kids or your favorite set of trapped miners on Earth
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Yeah, but the fiction doesn’t go into what we *do* learn from aborting those projects; it’s not like we just 0 them out.
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Also in the book some people point out that the science they get from Mark Watney being stranded on Mars for months is way more than what they were hoping to achieve with this and the next mission.
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