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Sailor Moon? More like sail to the Moon: Japan vows to set foot on lunar soil by 2030

Mark Dempster

Re: Just ONE astronaut?

>Just one guy, though? I don't think they've really thought this through enough.<

I don't have any more insight to their plans than you do, but what you're failing to consider is that AI/autonomous flight is far, far more advanced now than it was during the Apollo days. The spacecraft could probably do a better job of docking with each other, etc, than a human pilot could.

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