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    • Roughly $300 to $600 billion

      • • Two to four times the U.S. investment in the ISS, which amounted to roughly $150 billion, including launch costs.” (National Research Council, 2014) This means that the cost of a long stay human Mars mission is estimated at roughly $300 to $600 billion.
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  1. This means that the cost of a long stay human Mars mission is estimated at roughly $300 to $600 billion. The higher cost allows an earlier landing in 2033 but the more restricted budget will postpone it to past 2050.

    • Harry W. Jones
    • 2016
  2. May 9, 2018 · Will it cost a trillion dollars to send humans to Mars? “That’s a number I’ve heard a lot,” Torrey Radcliffe, who analyzes the costs of human space exploration for the Aerospace ...

  3. Feb 25, 2024 · As society contemplates going to the moon or Mars, there’s a rising debate as to whether it’s worth spending billions of dollars to send humans to other planets if a robot or rover can perform the necessary science.

  4. Dec 17, 2022 · During the space race, the cost of sending something into space averaged between $6,000 to over $25,000 per kg of weight not adjusted for inflation and NASA spent $28 billion to land astronauts on the moon, about $288 billion in today’s dollars.

  5. www.nasa.gov › humans-in-space › humans-to-marsHumans to Mars - NASA

    Sep 26, 2023 · NASA is advancing many technologies to send astronauts to Mars as early as the 2030s. Here are six things we are working on right now to make future human missions to the Red Planet possible. Learn More

  6. Jul 20, 2016 · A 16-ounce bottle of water weighs about a pound, so it's a good baseline for how much stuff costs to send to the space station: between $9,100 to $43,180.

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