@mpotter I’m a total space junkie. One of my very first memories is sitting in a room with what felt like a crowd, watch a tiny black and white TV for the Apollo mission. We lived not far from the Cape, and had seen the launch live. My biofather was still around then, and he loved science and science fiction and I remember him crying at the landing, out of I think, pure joy. He left not long later, so I never got to ask what he was feeling at that moment.

One of my biggest disappointments was finding out I was too short to fly jets, and I could never be a test pilot, which at the time, looked like the only way a woman was going to get a space flight.

@jCarttarBrooke Yeah, but astronauts *want* to go. These are high adrenaline humans. Hell, I want to go, and I’m way too old and round. I’d be a new moon. 🤣

Robotics haven’t leveled up to human yet, they can’t make the same sort of decisions, nor do they have the same dexterity without using something like waldos.

I’m just saying, I bet the astronauts would fight you if you suggested they shouldn’t go. 🤣🥰