[ExI] What happens to US space programs after November?

[John Clark]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 9:17 PM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

*> It is a replacement, you just abandon the failed one.*


Yes, if something breaks in space it would be far cheaper to just abandon
it and send a new one rather than pay to have an astronaut hanging around
to repair it, which he probably couldn't do anyway unless the problem was
obvious and the solution simple. And the broken instrument was probably
using technology that was 15 or 20 years old, so the replacement would be a
big improvement.

John K Clark
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