YES, THAT’S PART OF IT. THE OTHER PART IS NOT HAVING ALL OUR EGGS IN ONE BASKET: People frequently float the concept of an “Antarctic dry run”. But the point of going to space isn’t to go to space because we can. It’s not a vanity project. The point of going to space is that there’s valuable stuff there. I wrote a whole article about this called “The Trillionaires of Mars”.
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