Strictly speaking it is just our moon not "interplanetary" space travel. So from a marketing/technology perspective Mars is far more attractive and a greater en

Strictly speaking it is just our moon not "interplanetary" space travel. So from a marketing/technology perspective Mars is far more attractive and a greater engineering challenge. The moon is a "boring" enterprise three digits billionaires seem to dislike. But yes, in a sober assessment - coming from someone from middle class - the better we are in appreciating and understanding the balances of our own earth inculding keeping societal peace (how many nukes are ready to strike in any second?) the greater our chances to become interplanetary, and the moon is a obvious neighborhood playground for the intermediary phase. But it really gets a bad rep; possibly because of human hybris and its sad history after 1969.