Would it not be easier to build and maintain a space station in a stable Lagrangian point? Gerard O'Neill described a roadmap to one in 1976 in https://en.wikip

Would it not be easier to build and maintain a space station in a stable Lagrangian point? Gerard O'Neill described a roadmap to one in 1976 in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Frontier:_Human_Colonies_in_Space https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Frontier:_Human_Colon... The ideas were brought to life in Hideo Kojima's Policenauts, which is an interesting, rather detailed illustration of how the whole thing might work out. Somehow, I find the idea of a space station like that more exciting than the idea of colonizing Mars.