ISS astronauts return to Earth in Nasa's first ever medical evacuation

[hunter]

5. Why are we still sending people into space? It makes no sense.

"...there may be a case for having trained physicians on future missions to Mars, when the human body is more likely to break down than the technology supporting it..."

No shit! There's nothing on Mars for humans but misery and death.

I doubt natural born humans will ever have a significant presence in space. We'll probably send a few more people to the moon and hopefully return them safely and that will be that.

The first humanoid creatures on Mars, literally created by humans especially for this harsh environment, will probably look something like this:

I'd be more inspired by that than watching fragile humans get sick and die a hundred million miles away from home.