> Who says space exploration can't be similar.
We can see into the space through telescopes, while the seafaring explorers needed to literally go to some place to see what it was like.
We can see into the space through telescopes, while the seafaring explorers needed to literally go to some place to see what it was like.
Robotics still ain't good enough to make it work alone, we'll need manned missions to establish a manufacturing-based economy in cislunar space, if we want to get anything done this century. Risky, manned missions, that in time will yield good profits.
NASA has a whole page about it now. And here's a rather large paper (I remember reading a shorter version, but with the same pictures inside): https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11871.
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