Should Saturn's huge moon Titan be humanity's next destination, after the moon and Mars?

After "re-booting" the moon and establishing a base there, followed by dispatching expeditionary crews to Mars, where should humanity go? Next month, a first-of-its-kind gathering will blueprint an eventual crewed trek to tantalizing Titan , the largest of Saturn 's many moons. That inaugural "Humans to Titan Summit" will make the case for an astronaut outing to that far-off moon, detailing the science goals and concepts of human missions to Titan as well as necessary forerunner robotic efforts. And there is already a robotic Titan mission on the books — NASA's nuclear-powered Dragonfly octocopter mission, which is targeted to launch in 2028. Could it help fuel a human leap? A NASA image of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Foundational talks "It's not too soon to begin thinking about this," said Amanda Hendrix, director of the Planetary Science Institute, headquartered in Tucson, Arizona. She is also president of the advocacy group Explore Titan and co-author of "Beyond Earth: Our Path to a New Home in the Planets" (Pantheon Books, 2016). "The idea of the summit is to bring together people from different communities — engineers, scientists, industry, academia, robotic and human spaceflight experts," Hendrix told Space.com. …