The Moon may not be quite as appealing as Mars, but it's still a complex and poorly understood world, with many questions still unanswered.
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Mars is far more attractive as an outpost colony for earthlings than the moon is.
For a deeper interest in the Moon than I ever felt before.
Mars is a long ways away. The moon is only 240,000 miles, but Mars is in the millions. It's too risky without spending more time going to the moon.
I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.
We constantly learn new lessons up here. The experiences we gather will enable us to establish a long-term station on the moon and to go on to Mars.
The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance.
It's great that people are interested in Mars.
The Moon was the most spectacularly beautiful desert you could ever imagine. Unspoilt. Untouched. It had a vibrancy about it and the contrast between it and the black sky was so vivid, it just made this impression of excitement and wonder.
The way I see it, commercial interests should manage a lunar base while NASA gets on with the really important task of flying to Mars.
The Moon is a ball of left-over debris from a cosmic collision that took place more than four billion years ago. A Mars-sized asteroid - one of the countless planetesimals that were frantically churning our solar system into existence - hit the infant Earth, bequeathing it a very large natural satellite.
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