> The moon is a bad place for that because now you have to carry all that extra fuel for landing/etc. I think that might be outweighed by the fact that the tra

> The moon is a bad place for that because now you have to carry all that extra fuel for landing/etc. I think that might be outweighed by the fact that the transit time is a few days compared to months, and launch windows are plentiful. It's better to test with all the benefits we can initially, IMO, as failure has such a high cost (in all aspects. How long do you think it would take for the public to get over their distaste of manned missions or colinization efforts after a big failure?).