{"id":472,"date":"2007-10-02T08:22:18","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T12:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=472"},"modified":"2007-10-02T08:40:08","modified_gmt":"2007-10-02T12:40:08","slug":"are-manned-missions-passe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=472","title":{"rendered":"Are Manned Missions Passe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20070930\/sc_afp\/spacehistorysputnik50yrsmissions\">This article<\/A> brings up an interesting argument: Manned space missions are more dangerous and costly than mechanical ones.  &#8220;Intelligent&#8221; robots and satellites can do a pretty good job exploring other planets, they&#8217;re much less fragile than humans, and you don&#8217;t have to worry about bringing them back safely.<\/p>\n<p>The romance of manned missions aside, does it make better sense to concentrate on sending out lots of probes instead of trying to get humans back into space?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article brings up an interesting argument: Manned space missions are more dangerous and costly than mechanical ones. &#8220;Intelligent&#8221; robots and satellites can do a pretty good job exploring other planets, they&#8217;re much less fragile than humans, and you don&#8217;t have to worry about bringing them back safely. The romance of manned missions aside, does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}