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Poriturand wrote:

The real thing we will need is Space construction facilities, places to refuel in orbit or the moon, and ways to park. Basically, the less we will need to perform entry and re-entry the cheaper things get. So a Moon Base will probably be critical. Also if we want to mine asteroids, doing that in space and then sending down the minerals is way more efficient.

This will have immeasurable bonus towards achieving peace as the number one reason to invade is resource acquisition. So if we want rare-earth minerals and it is cheaper or just as expensive to drag an asteroid and mine it as to invade North korea or China(where most of that stuff is), it will save a lot of lives.

That's a good point. If we can start working on orbital launching and asteroid mining, our efforts to build things on the moon and fund missions to Mars will become that much easier. Even mining resources and launching rockets from the moon would be useful and more efficient. I think that the sooner places like Space-X invest in that kind of infrastructure, the better our space-faring missions will become.