Greedy Pipe Man

And NASA spends billions of dollars to go to a random planet, put a flag then come back.

The Artemis program (their program to go back to the Moon) is specifically designed to allow them to stay on the lunar surface for longer than the Apollo missions and they have made designs for lunar habitats around 2030, as have China and Russia for their International Lunar Research Station

China and NASA will then be in a space race to landing on Mars first and honestly if NASA doesn't use reusable rockets China will definitely win