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It's been half a century since Neil Armstrong's one small step, and it's time for humanity

to make another giant leap.

But where too?

Yeah. for humanity to make another giant leap, but where too? A common debate these days is whether we should go to Mars now or wait till we return to the

moon, and usually with the intent of having a permanent moon base set up, today

we'll be asking which is better or if maybe a third option is better than either the

moon or Mars first.

Now I don't make much of a secret that I tend to favor a robust lunar setup as a precursor

to going to Mars, or even doing them in tandem, but we'll be trying to examine the case

for each

today and in the context of today.

Many of the arguments for one or the other have been dependent on the situation of public

support and available technology at the time the case was being made.

And that is a fluid setup but sometimes the arguments lag behind. Existing space infrastructure might

matter a lot in the equation too. For instance, the concept of asteroid mining has

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