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While nasa has its plan for alunar station and then maybe a landing on the moon its not coming in an affordable manner.
The 3 Falcon 9 heavy plan of zubrin's moon direct is however affordable and would with insitu planning make it sustainable....
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Deep Space Technologies
http://www.parabolicarc.com/2021/09/18/ … hnologies/
Nasa’s latest astronaut trainees are already dreaming of the Moon
https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1525422/n … f-the-moon
Year-Long Simulated Mission
https://gizmodo.com/nasa-s-year-long-si … 1847436787
Planetary extravehicular activity (EVA)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41526-021-00144-w
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How to Deploy a 10-km Interferometric Radio Telescope on the Moon with Just Four Tethered Robots
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NASA's stakeholder collaborations help inform Moon to Mars planning
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https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/file … ummary.pdf
blueprint for how we’ll eventually send humans to Mars.
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Inside NASA’s big plan to bring the internet to the moon
https://www.fastcompany.com/90855630/na … o-the-moon
'NASA Is Desperately Trying to Mine the Moon Before China Gets There'
https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/ … ning-race/
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We should also consider the costs of delays and inflation, yesterday's and yester-years mission is expensive when compared in today's money, the inflation adjusted to today’s dollars and not to tomorrows dollars. Did you need to do ISS scinece before going to Mars, that's a maybe its an ongoing debate, adding ISS costs end up with 100 billion over a decade plus, ESA, Japan, Canada and NASA will probably do a joint mission soon.
The Russians have Luna25
Russia’s Return to the Moon: Luna-25
https://www.leonarddavid.com/russias-re … ific-gear/
Russia is back again, maybe less impressive than Soviet missions
Western countries have sanctions after an invasion of Ukraine
On the current path will the world spend 200 Billion to use the Moon as a stepping stone to Mars or maybe even more? perhaps even spending time and energy for much more?
Space-X has delivered payload for South Korea.
India, China and Japan are also looking to the Moon.
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Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus Lander Sends Faint Signal From the Moon
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The index of going to the moon is not complete if we are not talking about why we are going.
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