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Article #243Re: Automated space station construction
From: "F.Baube x554"
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1992 12:29
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1992 12:29
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mike <mike@drseus.jsc.nasa.gov> writes: > > [Robot] technology is too young to be trusted yet. Much better to stick with O-rings ? If the issue is trust [as it is this election day ?], I thought that after Challenger, they stopped implying that the shuttle was workaday "transportation", and resumed refer- ring to it as officially "risky" for the people on board. (This may be naive but ..) How difficult could it be to take a collection of JPL and university robot tinkerings and put them in a shuttle small package and put them thru their paces ?? The ones that look like they can work without babysitting get subsequent rides on unmanned launchers. Is every dry run for SSF construction going to involve hundred- million-dollar gizmos with a MTBF of 0.2 shuttle missions ? > Then again, some of NASA's funding comes > from the romance of humans being there, not robots (IMHO). Aha .. the truth will out. fred :: baube@optiplan.fi
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