Ishikadu

As someone who will be in the position to support a friend's similar choice and action, is there anything that you wished those closest to you would have or could have done different to, for the lack of better words, make the process "better" and/or "easier"?

As a follow-up, how do you see the Millennium Project expanding in the time leading up to the "colonization" of either Mars and/or any moons we deem suitable staging grounds for future experiments/travels. "Colonization" here being used in the same way we humans currently occupy Earth orbit.