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#1 2004-09-30 10:16:22
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Re: Cernan Speaks Up
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s … aut]Eugene Cernan
*I'm disappointed with some of it. "I think the day ... is very near we can send a school teacher, a student, a poet, an artist, ... a journalist into space," Cernan said. Those space travelers, he said, would "come back and share with the rest of the world their feelings and thoughts."
*Well that's nice. 
But what about actual hard science exploration? To me that's much more important than some teachers' or artists' "feelings and thoughts." Geez, is objectivity totally dead?
I really dislike sounding disrespectful, but it seems some of our Apollo (!) astronauts are uncertain or balkish about actual space exploration. I've read too many "feel-good" reports from them after Apollo, all seeming to focus on
staying right here after all.
Not directed at Cernan, but maybe some of these hot-shot pilots were just that? It was simply a job?
There are issues within space exploration which aren't so cut-and-dry with me either, but this sounds like just wanting to get postcards from daytrippers. 
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#2 2004-09-30 10:26:08
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Well that was a pretty short and shallow article. Anyway I agree that exploration and science are first. However it is nice to add a more human touch. The way and artist poet and musician may portray space could have many inspirational benefits for society. But then again why not choose a scientist that is also an artist or a poet. As far as a teacher maybe. I don’t think sending a student is such a priority. Why should that student be so privileged. What will he/she really contribute.
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#3 2004-09-30 10:29:24
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After getting a taste of having gone to the moon maybe he is just bitter to be known as the last to have walked there, to never be given that chance again. Now feeling way to old to go and would never be given the time of day let alone the chance to go again.
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#4 2004-09-30 10:45:19
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However it is nice to add a more human touch... But then again why not choose a scientist that is also an artist or a poet.
*Yes, good comments. I see your point. It could be win/win, and I don't wish to eliminate the "human touch" entirely.
However, his comments seem to greatly emphasize/promote "merely feeling good" (subjectivity) over science (objectivity).
Science takes abit more precedence with me.
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#5 2004-09-30 10:56:12
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One more reason to go away from just sending specialists but more over all round knowledgeable people instead. Yes still send experts in a feild but fill in the remainder of the crews with Jack of all trades.
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#6 2004-09-30 10:56:51
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*I wish Michael Collins would speak up; I'm interested in his opinions especially. He wrote a book, published around 1990, pro-manned Mars mission. I saw it at a bookstore here in town. I'm going to pick it up tonight, or sometime this week. Have been delaying purchasing and reading it because I have a TON of other books to work through, but I'm going to drop the other stuff and start in on that book.
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#7 2004-10-01 12:40:27
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While not quite on topic it is however is about the history as told by another of those Nasa insiders.
Exploration and History Come Together on NASA Web Portal
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2004/se … story.html
Essay: The Importance of Exploration
This is the first in a series of essays on exploration by NASA's Chief Historian, Steven J. Dick.
http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-100104a.html
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#8 2004-10-07 10:47:44
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A few more words form U.S. astronaut with Czech roots has high hopes for future space exploration and of Dreaming someday of colonies on Mars.
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