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E-PrinceIn Tuesday's New York Times, Professor Paul Krugman wrote that "manned space flight in general has turned out to be a bust." Reflecting on the costs of the Columbia tragedy, and the greater utility of unmanned probes and satellites ...
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Machines are tools and not replacements. Too call something exploration means a person must be there. These two facts give us the reason for manned spaceflight and my opinion the justifiable reason. I too don't agree with a lot of what the shuttle has done, but in order for mankind to understand space; you need a man there to explore it with his own eyes.