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Was moon-smashing mission doomed from the start?
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newscientist.com
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habs
on Oct 22, 2009
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JoeAltmaier
on Oct 22, 2009
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Robotic (unmanned) missions will always return vastly less information than manned. They can't adapt to circumstance well, mission goals can't be rewritten while in-flight, and its very hard to estimate risk from 250,000 miles away.
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