A goal within our grasp

• Autores: Paul Marks
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3148, 2017, págs. 24-25
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In a welcome outbreak of realism, underlined by US vice president Mike Pence's call for US boots on the moon, space agencies and rocket firms have been ramping up visions for lunar bases. The good news is that all this apparently kicks the fashionable but faintly absurd idea of trying to colonize Mars ahead of the moon into the long grass. There have been mounting doubts about NASA's stated primary goal of getting people there in the 2030s. We should get off-world living right before venturing too far--and the moon is the best place for that. To do it further away would verge on the masochistic.