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Congratulations to the Artemis II crew – but the case for sending astronauts into space is rapidly shrinking | Martin Rees and Donald Goldsmith

Today at 11:00 AM, via The Guardian

Soon, thanks to the advance of robots, the only reason left to send humans to the moon will be as an ultra-expensive sport

Martin Rees is the astronomer royal and a former president of the Royal Society; Donald Goldsmith is an astrophysicist and science communicator

The 2020s has seen a revival of the “Apollo spirit”. The US and China are seemingly in a race to send humans to the moon by...

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