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interplanetary space craft

CPL.Luke
in Astronomy and Cosmology

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I thought bigelow's full-size station was going to be quite roomy -- at least, that's what the various articles I've read on it have pointed to.

Robots don't need air, food, or water, but we have spacesuits that work and vehicles that can maintain human lives for extended periods. We don't have robots that can do the work that humans can do.

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but if you build one capable of doing the work a human can do, you'll find it would be alot cheaper. also cutting off large chunks of asteroid and then bringing it back to a ship would be extremely difficult for a human

but if you build one capable of doing the work a human can do, you'll find it would be alot cheaper. also cutting off large chunks of asteroid and then bringing it back to a ship would be extremely difficult for a human

 

Microgravity?

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a giant ball of rock floating in space is still hard to move. inertia.

 

furthermore an astronaut has to be afraid of all the micrometeorrites out there

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