When the Apollo astronauts came back from the Moon, the general opinion was that when they went to the Moon, they experienced it their own way but what they really discovered, was their own planet seen from very far.
No Science Fiction story prepared them (or us) for the view of Earth from a big distance.
We need that view, all the time, as a humbling reminder (to all children for instance) of our true place in the universe, amid stars, planets, the galaxy and as a tiny blue marble.
And of course, we need to put devices in various places around the Earth and Sun or our Moon to spot the incoming rocks!
Our Moon!
I'd like to see the Moon as (among other things) a power source for laser (or energy) beams feeding all kinds of satellites (making them more lightweight as their energy source would be elsewhere) and probes on their way inside the solar system or even outside the solar system.
Mars!
If we need to build a precise infastructure, with dextrous robots, in purposefully chosen areas for collecting the CO2 and the H2O to produce the CH4 ,in a fast enough way, in a sufficient amount for the trip back, then the telepresence technology will have matured so much as to render human presence on Mars....superfluous.
Or we'll merely be passengers.
Raoul
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