"Brett Buck" wrote in message
m...

I can't even see it serving as a stepping-stone - there are no
legitimate questions that this answers.

except for the question of "can we safely send humans on years-long journeys
out of LEO"? and "are there any gotchas involved in Martian operations"?,
stuff like that...

Land, or send unmanned probes. The intermediate solution is a loser
in any case.

You do realize that people said exactly the same thing about Apollos 8 and
10, yes? WHy bother going all that way and not land?

--
Terrell Miller


"It's one thing to burn down the **** house and another thing entirely to
install plumbing"
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