The Moon Still Has Human Appeal

A plurality of 37% of the 151 respondents to the on-line poll want humanity to return to the Moon and build a lunar base while 23% want a direct human mission to the planet Mars. On the other hand, 19% each want a human mission to the asteroids or nuclear propulsion driven human mission to the Jovian moon Europa and the Saturian moon Titan.

Comments are welcome from poll and non-poll participants making the case for the designation world you may prefer and, do please tell why.

It is essential that resources be dedicated appropitately now to make the essential steps to undertake human missions out-of-earth-orbit in the next decade. With American, Chinese, European, Indian, Japenese, Russian unammed space probes having been sent to lunar orbit in the last few years, a consensus must be forged for the first multinational human endeavor beyond earth orbit.