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Commission Suggests UK Should End Astronaut Ban
An anonymous reader writes "According to the BBC a British scientific panel has recommended that the British Government should end its ban on human space flight. The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) Commission pursued a 9-month investigation into 'The Scientific Case for Human Space Flight'. Professor Frank Close, Chair of the Commission, said, 'We commenced this study without preconceived views and with no formal connection to planetary exploration. Our personal backgrounds made us lean towards an initial skepticism on the scientific value of human involvement in such research.' The commission concluded that 'profound scientific questions relating to the history of the solar system and the existence of life beyond Earth can best - perhaps only - be achieved by human exploration on the Moon or Mars, supported by appropriate automated systems.'"
..as an excuse for not doing something to hard.
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The council people or whoever the fuck they are must not have gotten the memo from the folks up there to stay the hell off their rock. The reason why people aren't being sent isn't because people just aren't expendable in the military. It's because we were told to go away. Check the transcripts from Armstrong and Aldrin.
If you think we're the only things growin in this Universe with something better than a rocket shitmobile, I have a flat model of Earth to sell you.