re: Mark: You take the first punch and then I'll go in for mop up
Those Mars guys are all talk.
A couple of good places to check out are:
http://fti.neep.wisc.edu/neep533/SPRING2004/neep533.html
and
http://www.space-frontier.org/cgi-bin/BBS/MoonBase/read/11030 (via HobbySpace)
Real research, real reasons why going to the Moon is as obvious as, well, the Moon in the sky.
The NEEP stuff is a bit biased towards He3, but Dr. Schmitt is one of the lecturers there. I regard He3 as a nice by-product of other efforts.
Enjoy!
Ken
