Who should we choose for the mission to the big barren rock? People who like rocks. That checks out.
The headline is a little misleading. It’s saying that they selected the geology team that will plan the science mission for the astronauts, not that the geologists will go
Thanks, a reread of the article only makes it clearer the astronauts and geologists are separate teams in the third paragraph. I had thought they just… had people with educations in both areas. Surely there’s one person out there who is good at/capable of both being an astronaut and a geologist who would want to go?
Geology budget of 5million dollars doesn’t seem like that much.
It’s the budget for the earthbound scientists who will be handling the geology side of the mission. The astronauts can’t know everything – this is their expert ground team for one part of the mission.
