There has been much debate about the where both human and robots should come into play into exploration. Both have their own advantages and disadvantages.
The advantages that robots have is that they only require energy which can be provided by solar and nuclear power sources. They are disposable, and no one cares when they are destroyed in an accident. They can survive for year in the extreme environments they are deployed. The disadvantages are their lack of intelligence, problem solving ability, and versatility.
The advantages to human exploration is that humans are intelligent, which makes them more flexible and able to carry out far more complex tasks and operations than a robot. The disadvantages of human exploration is that maintaining human life in space is expensive, which makes human exploration far more expensive than robots.
There has been a great deal of debate as to whether humans or robots should explore space. Personally I believe that we should simply allow humans to do what they do best and let robots do what they do best. Robots are great for first stage exploration. Satellites can photograph areas from space. Robotic rovers can travel around on the surface of planets and determine basic characteristics of the soil, and etc. If it involves simple observation or testing robots are the ones for the job. However there are a great deal about exploration that is not about simple observation and testing. Exploration is about more than just send out probes every once in a while. In order to carry out exploration at a more advanced level we need outposts where more advanced research can be done. Building and maintaining outposts is a job for humans because the complexity involved demands problem solving abilities.
That is the reason I believe that NASA should continue with its plans for a moon base. Many people have thrown out idea that NASA should scrap plans for a moon base and just do sortie mission. Why? If all your going to do is land on something like the moon or an asteroid, collect some samples, and then leave why send a human? Such missions are better and more cheaply done with robots. Leave the simple stuff up to robots leave the complex missions involving outposts up to humans.
The advantages that robots have is that they only require energy which can be provided by solar and nuclear power sources. They are disposable, and no one cares when they are destroyed in an accident. They can survive for year in the extreme environments they are deployed. The disadvantages are their lack of intelligence, problem solving ability, and versatility.
The advantages to human exploration is that humans are intelligent, which makes them more flexible and able to carry out far more complex tasks and operations than a robot. The disadvantages of human exploration is that maintaining human life in space is expensive, which makes human exploration far more expensive than robots.
There has been a great deal of debate as to whether humans or robots should explore space. Personally I believe that we should simply allow humans to do what they do best and let robots do what they do best. Robots are great for first stage exploration. Satellites can photograph areas from space. Robotic rovers can travel around on the surface of planets and determine basic characteristics of the soil, and etc. If it involves simple observation or testing robots are the ones for the job. However there are a great deal about exploration that is not about simple observation and testing. Exploration is about more than just send out probes every once in a while. In order to carry out exploration at a more advanced level we need outposts where more advanced research can be done. Building and maintaining outposts is a job for humans because the complexity involved demands problem solving abilities.
That is the reason I believe that NASA should continue with its plans for a moon base. Many people have thrown out idea that NASA should scrap plans for a moon base and just do sortie mission. Why? If all your going to do is land on something like the moon or an asteroid, collect some samples, and then leave why send a human? Such missions are better and more cheaply done with robots. Leave the simple stuff up to robots leave the complex missions involving outposts up to humans.
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