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Re:Elon Musk provides new details on his ‘mind blowing’ miss... by danielvf on Saturday June 11, 2016 @11:32AM (#11883784)
We've already been to the moon first though, several times. Mars is the next (huge) step forward in difficulty.
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Re:Elon Musk provides new details on his ‘mind blowing’ miss... by sago on Saturday June 11, 2016 @11:57AM (#11883902)
We've visited for a few hours, this is about putting a colony on it. That's orders of magnitude more difficult. Why do something orders of magnitude more difficult on a planet orders of magnitude more difficult to reach?

As I said, the other answers seemed to give credible suggestions.

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