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In article <C9L44E8@xds8.ferranti.com>, jeffd@ficc.ferranti.com (Jeff
Daiell) writes:
> In article <6907@eos.UUCP>, woody@eos.UUCP (Wayne Wood) writes:
>  
> > *WE* need men in space.   Mankind cannot stay on this planet and hope to
> > survive forever.  We are already starting to feel the population pressures
> > and also the economic pressures from the constant drain on non-renewable
> > resources.
> 
> 
> You assume that only Government can put persons in space.  But that's
> not true.  So cutting out that part of NASA's budget used solely
> to 'upgrade' from unmanned to manned exploration would *not* mean the
> end of manned space trips, just those the taxpayers get pinched for.

Right now government is the only thing that can afford to.  Why not
have all these private companies fund research into robotics,
considering the fact that they will not be able to do manned missions
for a _long_ time.  

jim

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