Quote Originally Posted by EM1toEVO View Post
So after reading that link, I'm assuming that they want to use the moon as a pitstop for further explorations.
This and possibly colonization. A space station on the moon would be a great pitstop/base for a mission to Mars. We can't stay on the moon as it is for more than a few days because we have to take water with us and potable water is heavy/bulky and can't be compressed (or can it?). If we had a water source on the moon we could stay much, much longer.