Might it of been premature to give up on this module on the Japeneses part, with the possibility of shuttle extension?
I don't think that was the question. I think he asked if it was premature to put it that way so soon.
Quote from: Andrewwski on 12/30/2008 03:26 pmI don't think that was the question. I think he asked if it was premature to put it that way so soon.Well, ok, fair enough. In any event, the CAM was cancelled long before the Columbia accident.
CAM would've given us a guess as to the maximum safe crew rotation schedules at various potential manned bases in the Solar System. When CAM was killed, it was a victory for the future of robotics in space. You could say that's it for us as a species with CAM gone...might as well bash a toaster over my head now if the robots will control the space economy.
I tried to find the CAM back in the summer, I think it's at the JAXA Tsukuba centre, near Tokyo, as that's where the JEM was developed and tested. However I never got a chance to go there and check it out. I think someone posted a couple of pics of the CAM a few months ago, I'm not sure which thread...
Quote from: Phillip Huggan on 01/02/2009 06:03 amCAM would've given us a guess as to the maximum safe crew rotation schedules at various potential manned bases in the Solar System. When CAM was killed, it was a victory for the future of robotics in space. You could say that's it for us as a species with CAM gone...might as well bash a toaster over my head now if the robots will control the space economy.That is just a bunch of hooey and no basis for such an outlook. Potential manned bases in the Solar System are so far in the future there is plenty of time for CAM type research to be done. There is no pressing need