We are not seaweed to be dragged back and forth with every bit of opinion emanating from wherever. Mars has water and that was the major thing to wait for before designing the permanent Mars settlement. Where is the plan? In Russia? yes, Russia.
Apparently we’re lichens to grow on a rock which becomes our whole universe — there’s some water on Mars, but little atmosphere, gravity 38 per cent that of Earth, steady and serious rain of space debris. The Russians couldn’t get to the Moon back when their space program was robust, which it isn’t now. They’ve said, we’re going to the Moon, but they may as well have said, we’re going back in time and stealing the Ark of the Covenant.