We’ve should have had a permanent population the moon decades ago. Maybe in the dozens, but still. Especially large telescopes, and definitely a huge radio scope on the far side, shielded from our noise.
There’s absolutely no reason we have not landed on Mars decades ago.
Liberals are absolutely livid that Ted Cruz is now chairman of the committee controlling NASA because he say he’s going to try to get them back on their original mission.
They really believe NASA was intended to study climate change despite the fact that nobody ever mentioned it for the first 30 years.
The moon offers both problems we need to solve like an exceedingly harsh environment and the shelter we need as we solve the problems.