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Mars Is the best place/way to promote human exploration to those other targets and to build infrastructure to do so. What all the folks hollering Mars obsession and Zubrin cult don't get is that most MS members and other Mars firsters are focused on the larger picture, but see Mars as the gateway. We understand that 30 years of little progress does not indicate that space is easy. It is hard and the way to go there permanently is to find the path of least resistance not shoot for everything at once. As I told Larry Do the math.
Regards,
Mark