Or how about a straight reading? Talking about the Moon is talking about something done 50 years ago, and so is a redo, not that exciting in and of itself. Talk about Mars which hasn't been done before. Going to Mars does include going to the Moon. Going to the Moon is to be viewed as not something to do in for its own sake but as part of the bigger picture. That's a hell of a lot less of a stretch than saying he's taking about an offworld fleet of spaceships we already have, as you are stretching it.