Continuing the discussion from Starliner Return Too Risky For Stuck Astronauts:
Almost everything you touch has an I.C. chip or small computer in it. My teakettle has programmable electronic controls. Your car unless it’s a Nash rambler has electronic controls. They work fine until they don’t. This doesn’t happen every day and the reliability gets better by leaps and bounds. None of this would have occurred without the space (military) race. When we return to the moon and go for takeout food I hope there will be someone there preparing it and not just a solar powered dispenser. We need to experience the next frontier, not just take pictures of it.