I think that yeah, in the long term, humanity’s future in space is in human-made crafts. That’s a long way down the road, though. Before that, we need to devel

I think that yeah, in the long term, humanity’s future in space is in human-made crafts. That’s a long way down the road, though. Before that, we need to develop a huge amount of infrastructure in space, and doing that will be extremely expensive so long as we have to fight Earth’s gravity well to do so (even accounting for things like cheap reusable rockets). Either the moon or mars could serve as the “stepping stone”, but I think Mars is better situated for that due to having a wider variety of raw resources available and being overall less harsh than the moon while also having a dramatically weaker gravity well and practically nonexistent (aerodynamically speaking) atmosphere that would allow launching of vastly larger and oddly shaped crafts into orbit. From there, it’s much more feasible to start looking into mining asteroids and building city-ships.