NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission

Re:NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission by bruce511 on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @01:48AM (#45665300)

Putting people on Mars US equally useless. Any colony on Mars would require enormous support from Earth. It would never be self-suffient.

Mars would need water, air, energy, raw materials, fuel and everything else for (basically) ever.

There is zero to be gained (here) from a Mars colony. Mars lacks a magnetic field, air to breath, water to drink or cultivate crops, a temperature suitable for plant or animal life, fuel sources to build industry, supply chains for the construction or maintainence of the simplest electrical systems.

Talk of Mars is purely a PR play. Someone will be first. Yay. But Mars will play no part in Earth's future.

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Re:NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission by xvilka on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @07:58AM (#45667740)

I think we should aim for Ceres[1] instead, which is way more resources rich compared to Mars for a sustainable colony. And a perfect starting point for exploring the rest of the asteroid belt[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_Ceres

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_the_asteroid_b...

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