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Think about it. Does he seem like a highly trained astronaut? Throughout the course of the movie, we learn that he doesn't "have the right stuff", he isn't brave, he doesn't know how to drive his own ship, and he's just about the stupidest, least capable man you could ever find. It took like five minutes to finally realize that he wasn't walking on a barren planet. There is no way NASA would ever trust a man like that on an actual space mission. Chuck Baker is actually the most annoying and obnoxious person on Earth, and everybody just got tired of having to deal with him. So they fed him a story about going on a very important space mission, gave him a space suit, then shot him to the furthest reaches of the universe they could find.

* To be fair if you landed on a planet populated by brain sucking aliens without a single weapon even the most hardened 'naught would hide.

** Why, of course, the other four idiots are on the ship orbiting the planet.