#TheSpaceReview:
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Musk’s Moon mania
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"If he still wants to achieve a goal he has long mentioned of dying on Mars—“just not on impact,” he would frequently add—a focus in the near term on the Moon needs to be an enabler if not accelerator of his Mars vision, not a diversion."
https://www.thespacereview.com/article/5160/1
16.2.2026