[Brett66]

We'll be setting up infrastructure this time, so it will be more than what Apollo accomplished. I believe a L1 depot will be part of what we'll set up, thus giving us greater flexibility in launching missions to the moon and eventually Mars.

[ambrose]

It boggles the mind to contemplate why so much in the way of resources were blown on the space station in the first place. Even back in the 60s, the general plan was to build a moon base, then on to Mars and beyond. Then we somehow found ourselves bogged down with space stations and space shuttles.

I know it was just a book/movie, but serious minds envisioned us traveling past Jupiter by now.