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| Tango01 | 27 Mar 2015 3:43 p.m. PST |
"Today, astronaut Scott Kelly will board a Russian Soyuz spacecraft bound for the International Space Station. He'll spend a year in low-Earth orbit, in part as a lab rat in a study that looks at how his body responds to life in space. The cool part here is the control group: Scott's twin brother Mark, also an astronaut, is staying on Earth, making him a genetically matched basis for comparison. It's an intriguing experiment, but as far as human space travel goes, it's no giant leap. Humans haven't left low-Earth orbit—just a couple hundred miles above where you're sitting right now—since 1972, when astronauts last walked on the moon. Robots, though? Robots are having all the fun. "Uncrewed" spacecraft have ventured to almost every corner of the solar system, and—at this very minute—are exploring alien worlds from asteroids and comets to planets and dwarf planets. Which makes it tempting to declare that space exploration should be the realm of robots, not humans. People are expensive, hard to maintain, and they can die. Who needs the grief?…"
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