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Originally Posted by Papa_Complex
You send people now because if you don't, then it won't be happening in 50 years. It's called taking the long view.
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By that logic we will never send anyone again anyway since it has already been 40 years since we last sent someone.
Taking the long view is looking at what going to the moon now is going to accomplish toward forwarding the next logical step, going to mars. I don't see how going to the moon now advances that at all. Add in the additional estimate of $3 billion per year it will require, multiply it by whatever number you want because estimates for space programs are always horrendously wrong, and I don't see the value.