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Mars Needs Robots

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As NASA's Mars probe Curiosity sends amazing images from our planetary neighbor, let's reprise an old column from the Frum archives: Why manned space exploration is obsolete.

Here's the great thing about all these [unmanned] missions: They do not need to be engineered to zero defect, and no plans need be...

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