"Take a look at Raoul's slide of reasons for going to the Moon.

Neither crater dating nor CAPS was included.
And these are the two reasons for returning to the Moon.
The others are just rationalizations.
This is quite deliberate on NASA's part."

I didn't see these reasons.
I wonder if Raoul's reason is still so we can have robots
explore the universe or something.
But what are some of the reasons NASA is going to the Moon?
I would say the main reason is NASA wants to continue
it's manned program.

The reason I want NASA to go to the Moon is determine whether or not there is minable water on the Moon. And if NASA doesn't do accomplish this, I think it will most likely be a waste of time and tax dollars.
If NASA can determine that there *isn't* minable water on the Moon, this also would be important to know, because it should also lead to answers of whether there could minable water in other places- Ceres, Mercury, etc. It should also be useful in regards to Mars. On Mars there relatively fairly large quantities of water. And this water will need to be mined if one wants colonies on Mars in the future.
The distinguishing difference between the minability of lunar water and Martian water, will related to whether Lunar water can be economically exported to Lunar orbit and beyond- so the cost of water on lunar surface has to be significantly less than the cost of shipping water from Earth to lunar surface, it needs to reach a level where is competitive with water shipped from Earth to Lunar orbit.

{Hence, if each 1000 tonnes [1 million kg] mined lunar water were cost $10,000 per kg or more- a 10 billion dollars total cost per 1000 tonnes, then lunar water is not economical to mine. If the first 1000 tonnes cost 10k per kg and the next 1000 tonnes cost significant less per unit [say 5K per kg], you talking about a different matter and it might be minable. Or if the first 1000 tonnes cost 5K per kg and the 1000 tonnes units after this are significantly less, and if one can mine & one has potential market in coming years as much as 10,000 tons, then it is probably minable.

On Mars if each 1000 tonnes of mined water costs 1000 per kg [1 billion per 1000 tonnes] or even costs 1/2 of this $500 per kg, this probably wouldn't cheap enough to export to Mars orbit. But certainly be cheaper than importing from the Moon or Earth to Mars surface.}