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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aslan" data-source="post: 2947021" data-attributes="member: 96084">If they could take pictures from early jets breaking the sound barrier, and from early orbital launches, the moon wouldn't have been a problem.As for setting up a base on the moon, I actually read a book awhile back (too lazy to search for the title) that insisted that not only is it easier to get to mars in terms of fuel and trajectory, but it'd be easier to build a self sustainable habitat on mars, due to already existing materials.The moon's a tricky beast to lasso, besides, if we haven't made self-sustaining underwater bases here on earth, or even successful bio-domes, putting a base on the moon would be a major resource hog.  Heck, they have problems sometimes getting a supplies to a handful of people on the ISS in our own orbit!</blockquote>