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Hmm. What about a 'live-aboard'? You know. A colony ship with, say, a thousand people and all the resources for life already on board. Hydroponic gardens, some manufacturing capacity, 100% recycling of all organic matter, capacity to create oxygen, etc. Like a mini-planet. Barring asteroid encounters, it could exist in space almost indefinitely. Then, if the target planet turns out to be inhospitable after all, people could re-calculate and move on to the next candidate.
I think I read that as a plot in at least five sci-fi novels.
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