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But your addition doesn't say any of that. Your addition says,
In the HBO mini-series From the Earth to the Moon , a geology professor from Caltech met with Apollo 15 astronauts, and helped to raise their interest in the history and origin of granite. He pointed out that without a deep sense of observation, the astronauts would just be as good as small robots sent to the moon to collect rock samples.
All this says is ""some Caltech professor explained rocks and the importance of human observation to the astronauts"". It certainly doesn't put across the degree of emphasis you suggest here. ∇∆∇∆ "