Moon village could be "stepping stone" to send humans to Mars Space agencies around the world hope to pioneer a research vilage on the Moon that could be used as a developping program to get humans to Mars, said the new head of the European Space Agency Monday at the International Astronautical Congress in Mexico, as US billionaire Elon Musk is scheduled to present his ambitious plan to build a human colony on Mars after sending a manned spacecraft to the Red Planet within a decade. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES