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SHIFTHEADS: Artemis 2: Robots Would Do This Better. We Are Doing It Anyway. Dr. Sarah Rugheimer Explains Why.
Artemis 2 photos are coming back from around the moon and Dr. Sarah Rugheimer says go find the CNN gallery of thirty of them right now. She has been watching from Edinburgh. She studies this for a living. She still finds them beautiful in a way that exceeds the professional.
What does it mean that robots can genuinely do this better and cheaper and we are sending humans anyway? Dr. Sarah Rugheimer says the answer is not scientific. It is human. Exploration, bonding, the collective experience of following astronauts as they look back at a pale blue dot they just left behind. Every one of the…
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