Sentences with phrase «expensive human mission»

Norman Augustine, who is chairing a blue - ribbon panel examining alternative futures for the U.S. human space - flight effort, hinted last week that the panel might shy away from advocating an expensive human mission to the moon, Mars, or an asteroid.

Augustine's reflections may be a sign that the 10 - person committee won't push a bold commitment to an expensive human mission to the Moon, Mars, or an asteroid, when it submits its recommendations to the White House at the end of next month.

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The same goes for Mars, making it expensive to launch missions there too — perhaps even prohibitively expensive if President Obama's review of NASA's human space exploration policy is to be believed.

Sending humans is much more expensive than sending people, and on a scout mission why potentially send humans to their deaths when the robots could do just as good a job?