Ghost crafts to the outer solar system and the stars.

The AI and large language model, LLM will revolutionize space missions. It's easier to give commands to probes using natural language than to give some programming codes. The AI-controlled humanoid robots can operate in places that are too risky for people. Venus and Mercury are planets there the robots offer almost risk-free missions. The AI is a tool that can interact with ground stations. 

AI makes it possible to travel to the outer solar system and beyond. Humans are more versatile than the AI. But things like flight time to Jupiter. And Saturn and other gas giants are so long. This kind of journey will take a very long part of the astronauts' lifetime. And that is the biggest problem with those programs. 

That's why AI-controlled robots are tools that can make those missions that can take decades possible. 

The thing is that the AI-controlled spacecraft with a robot crew will withstand tougher handling. Like faster acceleration and slowing than humans. 

And the system is not as sensitive to radiation as humans are. That makes it possible to send lighter spacecraft to journey. 

That robot system doesn't require so much radiation protection as a manned spacecraft. 

The AI-controlled spacecraft can make it possible to take samples from any point in the solar system. 

But when we think about the journeys to other solar systems we must realize that the crew. That we send will not return in the sender's lifetime. The stars are too far for living humans. But the AI-controlled systems in those places are not far. The nuclear-powered probes can travel to other solar systems. Project Daedalus was one of the first, and still today one of the most realistic versions of an interstellar probe. The probe itself is the flyby system that sends sub-probes to the targeted stars. That data will tell researchers if is there something to research.  

Sending humans to those journeys has many moral and ethical problems. 

And before we send a crew on that journey. We must realize that we will never see those people again. So when our interstellar astronauts jump in the spacecraft they will die to people who leave before them. 

So in those cases, the researchers in the future might want to use the cloned crew members. 

That means. Those interstellar astronauts might born in special colonies where they live without contact with other people. 

In that case, there will not be families that wait for them. Missing people on Earth can put the mission in danger.  

And there is no room for errors. In a couple of light-years away.  That's why it's possible. The first crews that we send to interstellar journeys are frozen fetuses. There, far away from us, the AI-controlled robots will teach and prepare them for missions. And those people will not see Earth in their lifetime. But those journeys require a culture change.  

And there should be some kind of very special planet waiting for them. Those people will not go for nothing. 

And in that case, we must send robots to do research and prepare the planet for the colony. 

Robots can make the station ready for those colonists. So when the first researchers come to Mars. 

There can be buildings waiting for them. The key element in successful scientific missions is safety. 

Things like screaming air flow through broken shells. 

And astronauts who fight for their lives might seem exciting on movie theater screens. If we think that somebody breaks an arm or leg on the Mars journey that can seem nice in movies. But the fact is that this thing can risk a person's life. And the wounds. Like open fractures require surgery. AI-controlled robots can fix that arm. But many things can still go wrong. And even the best robot cannot fix any wounds without equipment. 

But those things are not tolerated in real space programs. The price of manned space flights is enormous if we think of things. Like journeys to Mars. The robot can continue its mission even if there is a leak in the spacecraft. 

Erupting carbon dioxide can destroy the entire base. When that gas opens a pothole under some building. Those things can cause the failure of the mission. That means if there is some kind of accident the scientific data will not collected. 

But at all times when we analyze this type of mission, we must ask ourselves why we risk humans. We know that humans are more versatile than AI and robots. But things like brain-computer interface (BCI) and communication satellites make it possible to control robots on the moon and Venus from ground station. 

The space is a dangerous place. But do we want to send humans to mission? There they will not return. I know that the world requires heroes. But the man is not a machine. Risking lives in space missions is not the value or self-sustain value. The space program is not a video game or movie. Of course, we want to see astronauts. But if something happens those things are bad for all programs. 

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