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The following opinion was provided in a letter to the editor of a national aeronautics magazine:
"Manned space flight is costly and dangerous. Moreover, the recent success of a series of unmanned space probes and satellites has demonstrated that a great deal of useful information can be gathered without the costs and risks associated with sending men and women into space. Therefore, we should invest our resources in unmanned space flight."
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
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The letter to the editor provides some understanding about why unmanned space flights may be a better option than manned space flights. However, the letter remains riddled with several assumptions which the author fails to address.
The author commences by mentioning the cost involved in manned space flight resulting in unmanned space flights being a superior option to manned ones. However, the letter fails to provide solid evidence for supporting the claim that manned flights will require a significantly larger expenditure than unmanned ones. It can also be a case that, at the same cost, the utility involved in unmanned space flights may be far inferior than manned flights due to the incapability of man-made robots to emulate all behavioral, physical and collaborative aspects of human beings.
Considering the second part of same statement, the letter lacks statistical evidence to state that manned space flight is dangerous. Manned space flight is managed by a huge team of aeronautical and aerospace experts, and has a meagre possibility for collision with another spacecraft due to the enormous effort and long duration of research performed on aspects such as path planning, structural design planning, and the development of mission specifications.
Furthermore, while mentioning about recent successes for unmanned space probes and satellites, the author fails to mention how this success has been quantified. While success is supposed to be the completion of the required mission task, it may also be plausible that the success has been exaggerated by several platforms to an extent that may not even include any significant mission completion. Moreover, the author fails to mention the kind of information which was gathered by the series of unmanned space probes, since sending humans into space may result in a better quality and quantity of collected information.
In the light of these assumptions, it does not deem fit to consider the argument of the author without further research performed on the basis of performance both statistically and scientifically. The provided argument does not provide enough evidence for unmanned space flight to be superior over sending men and women into space.