Just to be clear. Part of the reason I am taking this position stems from the Apollo missions. The guys who went up there, except Cernan, were not scientists in the truest sense. They were pilots who's first priority was knowing their vehicle inside and out. Once on the ground on the Moon (with respect to all of them) they were essentially ratracing in a maze trying to get the machinery up and running with only the barest nuts and bolts knowledge needed to get them where they needed to be and operational. The teams on the ground were the ones who made sense of what they found. The Moon teams were there to get their job done in the time alotted, without any kind of margin for that kind of in depth analysis.

With luck, the next generation of Moon missions will allow for a bit more time to do some on site work with larger crews and longer stays, but the crew's #1 priority should always be keeping the machines that keep them alive running, moreso than the science.

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I'm not completely heartless, the doctor who removed it told me he'd never be able to get it all.