My take on this....within 30 years, we will have the speed thing licked and launch some unmanned probe to reach there and land some explorer vehicle to do soil samples and see about life there. It may take 10 years to get there and get the data back but it’ll settle some arguments.
Meanwhile, we need to sit down and write up some rules because we might land....find human-like characters in a caveman environment, with dinosaurs predators limiting their development. Will we do the Republican-right-thing and kill off the dinosaur population, or will we just shake hands with the natives and wish them well (the Democrat-right thing)?
You know, they could be infinitely more advance than us and want to be left the hell alone.