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The End of the Cult of the Astronaut
If NASA aims to send humans to Mars, it will have to rethink its entire approach to spaceflight. A months-long journey to Mars would involve greater reliance on automation, robotics, and telepresence. So why keep people in the loop at all? The answer to that question may surprise you.

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- 21 Jan 2010, 8:02 pm
Robert Berger wrote: > If NASA aims to send humans to Mars, it will have to rethink its > entire approach to spaceflight. A months-long journey to Mars would > involve greater reliance on automation, robotics, and telepresence. > So why keep people in the loop at all? The answer to that question > may surprise you. > > http://www.reliableembeddedsystems.com/newsflashes/newsflash/the-end-of-the-cult-of-the-astronaut.html > > http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/space-flight/the-end-of-the-cult-of-the-astronaut