Given the expense of the redundancy necessary in a manned program and our need to get the most training and research and engineering experience knowledge for the dollars we spend at NASA, isn't it time to say that maybe manned programs should be really rare and reserved for rare occasions because they just don't deliver the bang for the buck--I am talking about basic science knowledge.
Harris questions the value of manned space programs compared to robotic alternatives.
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