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Re: Why colonize the Moon before going to Mars?
Indeed, why go anywhere? Let's stay on this planet forever until disaster, or ourselves, strike and we are wiped out. Before that happens though, our civilisation will probably slow down in development and expansion.
The benefits of space exploration and colonisation are many.
The reason to go to the Moon before going to Mars is, in my view, that we get a chance to practice on longterm deep space missions. We will develop new technologies for life support systems and micrometeoroid shields and how to protect the crew from radition. Obviously space travel is expensive and difficult, but it wont get any cheaper or easier if we chose to sit around and wait for some miracle to happen.
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