fucking defund the military and put it into humanitarian shit then, they get 35x the budget of NASA

in a world controlled by capitalism such an ideal thing will not happen anyway, sooner or later we’ll find some inherent incentive for mars/moon colonialism and when that happens we’ll go there and explore with the cheapest possible equipment, contaminate the land with earth based life and ruin future scientific outcomes.

so even if your proposal is ideal it’s in my opinion better to colonize while we still can with science money, not corporate or military money