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The Moon/Mars/Asteroids debate is dead. It was a product of space colonisation having to go through the bottleneck of a NASA (or other government agency) human exploration program. Only one winner could be paid for, so different visions had to fight between themselves and nobody won. Commercial space now means that alternative plans and destinations aren’t direct competitors, they will simply be other customers who will help you out by increasing demand, developing the launch market, and covering some fixed costs. So the answer is that we do all of these things at once