Testing... is this think on?
To the intellectual midgets who believe doing an Apollo mission to Mars is the "Best Way" forward: PHOOEY!
Get back to the moon and us IT as a test site for all things MARS! That means equipment testing, that means space craft testing, that means habitat testing, etc!
If it works there it will work on Mars. And if it doesn't, then it's better to be 3 days, any given day of the year, away from ones home base than 22 MONTHS once a year!
These mental midgets are setting anyone who wants to try for a direct Mars shot up for FAILURE.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
