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Originally Posted by renormalised
.....it's about time we not just start to think about going to Mars at some point in the future. But that we start making solid plans, now, to go there within the next 10-20 years. It's all well and good to be thinking about going back to the Moon, and so we should. But the Moon is going to be nothing more than a way station for some foreseeable time,......
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MARS = 10-20 years
it will take that long to develop a strategy for a LUNAR base station
so all the technologies can be tested and verified before a Mars mission.