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Space exploration and science go hand in hand. This is true for both robotic and manned missions. The advantage of missions that include astronauts is that they may be able to figure out how to repair something that stopped working, and they can modify the research itinerary if something unexpected of greater scientific interest is found. (It would be a shame if non-carbon-based life forms were sitting to the side of a robotic explorer that is looking for carbon-based life forms, and the robot’s sensors did not notice these life forms because the sensors were programmed so narrowly!)
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Benaroya, H. (2018). Lunar-based astronomy. In: Building Habitats on the Moon. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68244-0_6
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