Prepping for Mars Landing

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**GalacticDefender**

Tyyr wrote:
VermGho5t wrote:Stupidly foolish step. We need to be on the moon first to get acclimated to the harsh environments of terrestrial space AND THEN move onto Mars.

Moon =/= Mars.

While I'm all for going back to the moon, there are lots of good reasons to do it, training for Mars isn't one of them.

A big reason to go back to the moon is to mine Helium 3 for fusion reactions.