[ExI] Back to the Moon or direct to Mars?

[Adrian Tymes]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 5:19 AM Giulio Prisco via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> But Mars could be more inspiring
> to the young.
>

I see zero evidence for this.

I call it out because many of the alleged advantages for doing Mars without
or before Moon turn out to be false on examination.  This includes cost
savings: Moon-then-Mars will allow for lower-cost testing on the Moon
before building Martian systems, most likely leading to an overall lower
budget than skipping the Moon entirely, even if the latter option would
forego paying for "redundant" (and worthless, if the eyes of many Mars
advocate) lunar hardware.
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