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kurmit  ·  4107 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: NASA's new 'NEXT' ion drive may allow for interplanetary missions.

What is the financial incentive of sending humans into space instead of robots? The first way to slash huge chunks of unnecessary cost for company xyz's asteroid-mining project (as an example) is to ditch the human presence.