What obvious example am I overlooking?

[james_davis_nicoll]

I'm trying to think of a good example of an SF story with a crewed exploration vehicle armed with a large flotilla of robotic probes (The idea being the meat stays where it's safe, but close enough to the remotes not to have significant time lag).

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[oh6.livejournal.com]

Aaron Alexovich's Kimmie66 has this, where planets discovered by robots are released to the public as virtual environments when they've been sufficiently explored. It's not really crucial to the story but the comic goes into some detail.

[oh6.livejournal.com]

GAH I'm an idiot, it has the robots, but it doesn't have crewed exploration. Sorry.