What are some ways we can use the moon for our mission to visit and study mars

Three pages, double spaced, if you go over the page count I get a zero, size 11, default margins, comic Sanz font. Bibliography used in a separate page save paper as a word pdf. 

books to be used on the moon the Apollo journals by grant Heiden and Eric jones. and the Smithsonian history space exploration from the ancient world to the extraterrestrial future.