7 February 2007 UTC Gwen Gale I completely agree with everything you ve said Before coming to this discussion page and reading your comments I did question to myself the longterm impact this would have on the manned space program It s already expensive enough to send people into space to do what machines can do and do more reliably for much much less Now along with physical well being and despite their stellar educations and careers we have to concern ourselves with their mental well being as well We can learn so much more go so much farther more reliably for far less without astronauts imo Things aren t going to change overnight And despite future plans I think this will or at least should be the beginning of the end And it s long due 00 33