I’ve always felt like a moon base would be the perfect stepping stone to Mars, plus, you can sustainably mine H3! I think going directly to Mars is going to be

I’ve always felt like a moon base would be the perfect stepping stone to Mars, plus, you can sustainably mine H3! I think going directly to Mars is going to be a heck of a lot more complicated than figuring out the quarks of space living in the Moon, even though they do not parallel 1 to 1 it would be an eye opening experience I think none the less. Also closer to the home planet, and could serve as a sort of “to Mars” way station