It is the journey that engineering and our psychology as a species goes through in order to take us to Mars that is the important part, just like how it was for

It is the journey that engineering and our psychology as a species goes through in order to take us to Mars that is the important part, just like how it was for the Moon. We advance in our ability to understand and control materials and learn what is truly necessary to sustain life, while our astronauts experience a world without borders and return with their tales. It is very short sighted to believe that we have to frame every problem as a terrestrial problem with limited scope we have to solve, and that narrow-mindedness is something that will make it more difficult to find general solutions that are applicable beyond the bounds of earth or may even involve utilization of beyond earth resources such as space, asteroids, low gravity, satellites, or something novel.