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> practical reason that requires sending people to the moon still?

The big one that robots can’t do is studying human biology in space.

How do we fare long term on a foreign body? What does trauma medicine look like? How do we accommodate the diseases and disabilities that frequent our non-astronaut grade population? Is gestation, birth and development possible in low gravity? Et cetera.

Then Moon provides the easiest place to do this at scale by virtu of being the closest place to Earth with in situ resources.