[joshfinnie]

I am excited to see where this goes. I really like that NASA is getting out of the way of things that drag down its scientific ventures.

[idlewords]

Human space flight has essentially no scientific value. The only thing we learn from it is how to keep people healthy in space, which is a wonderfully circular rationale.

[whoisthemachine]

I disagree. The closer humans (preferably scientists themselves) are to scientific instruments, the more quickly observations can be made and new (even spontaneous) experiments be performed.