re: A moonbase?
Reading this: Moon base. “He just needs to be told what it’s good for".
I thought: ouch!!! Now what??
Then:
The most enduring pictures to come back from the Apollo missions were not of astronauts cavorting on the Sea of Tranquillity, nor even of the lunar landscape itself.â€
“They were the haunting views of Earth, seen for the first time not as a boundless and resilient colossus of land and water,but as a startlingly vulnerable lifeboat precariously plying a vast and dangerous sea: a ‘blue marble’ in a black void.â€
Yes, this must be the reason!!