Demand for Europe Space Rethink

Yes, I concur entirely.

It's always best if you can persuade others to pay for development.

Kind Regards....

Yes, Yes, Yes!

manned spaceflight is intended for politicians to get honours and recognition,

unmanned spaceflight gets the real results.

None of the useful satellites or spaceprobes need a pilot nor does it benefit from human beings nearby: outgassing is bad for optical and other equipment.

There are some holy cows existing in this and other fields that seeminingly is goverbned by science and calculation.

How can we convince the politicians?

RHABE

Hello RHABE

<"How can we convince the politicians?">

They can only be convinced, if you give them favours and money, lots of both in unmarked envelopes.

Kind Regards....

Good, takes them out of the competition. There is nothing that can investigate, self-program on the spot and generally do the kind of exploration that a man can. Let them turn inward and navel gaze.

Ahhh, but by sending manned missions, more and more is learned about how to keep man himself in space, and, hopefully, on other planets. This should be a serious goal. Someday, this planet WILL shake man off like a bad case of fleas. The only hope in that circumstance, for the continuation of the race, is the colonization of other planets/starsystems.

Now, should the human race be perpetuated? That is a good question......