Comments by "Kevin Street" (@Kevin_Street) on "What Were the Real Reasons Why We Stopped Going to the Moon?" video.

Of course we should have stayed on the Moon, or at least we should have kept getting better at going back to it. If we'd tried to build some kind of permanent base (maybe an international collaboration) twenty years ago, we'd have so much more data now on how to actually survive long-term in space. That data still needs to be collected if we're ever going to reach Mars or build permanent space stations in orbit (or build completely self sufficient structures on Earth), but now we have to begin collecting it almost from zero instead of having a two or three decade head start.
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