manned

It's not just manned flight it's 3-5x more manned than conventional craft, just from the ground.

Manned planes will fly for several decades still, and even upcoming generations will most likely be optionslly manned rather than unmanned.

Manned Moon and hypothetical manned Mars missions are not the endgame.

If a manned plane is shot down, the US public gets upset but if it is a drone, no one cares.

And in many busy subway/bus terminals there is manned police and lots of cameras.

Getting a manned mission to Mars using for example Robert Zubrin's Mars Direct plan costs about as much as two aircraft carriers.

Not that I'm aware of At Nasa, people raising red flags before the launch of a manned vehicle?

But it does seem rather ambitious to keep the 2017 date for manned flight...

A valuable supplement to manned aviation, yes, drones are already doing this.

Once we can send a manned ship on a budget that won't ruin an average country, let's go for it.

The public doesn't care if they're carried out by manned jets either.

I think SpaceX is doing incredible work and am positive we will see a manned journey to Mars within our lifetime.

ATM, a manned mars mission is in the "very hard and expensive" file.

Today's "drones" have more pilots than the manned craft!

First off, don't use the Shuttle or ISS as the yard stick for "manned spaceflight", they are some of the most expensive programs for the least results in history and are not representative of what can be done with manned spaceflight.

Manned spaceflight is not just about exploration, it's also about colonization.