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Sep 28, 2016 · That, along with some important technical achievements, would help bring the cost down – ideally to as little as $200,000, or the price of a median home in the United States.
Feb 13, 2019 · The price of a seat aboard SpaceX's Starship interplanetary vehicle will eventually drop enough to be accessible to a large chunk of the industrialized world's population, the billionaire...
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- II. Past estimates of Mars mission costs
- III. Cost estimates based on past human missions
- IV. Cost of life support
- B. The cost of Mars life support
- VI. Conclusion
document gives some previously estimated costs for a human mission to Mars, cites the costs of earlier human missions such as Apollo and the International Space Station (ISS), and then derives an independent cost estimate using historical data. The cost of life support for the Mars mission is discussed.
Some of the previous estimates of the cost for a human mission to Mars are cited. They are largely consistent.
In general, the best way to estimate costs is by direct analogy with the past costs of similar missions. Most of the estimates given here were made using cost estimation methods that are based on past mission data. NASA’s human relevant human missions are the International Space Station (ISS), space shuttle, and Apollo.
The cost of ISS life support is estimated as a guide to the cost of life support for Mars.
The cost of the Mars life support system could easily be the same or even more than that of the ISS system The ISS life support can provide for more than the three or four US crew on ISS, so it could be easily scaled down to one half the ISS size. On the other hand, a Mars mission will require two life support systems both able to support the full ...
The best and most realistic way to estimate project cost is by using comparisons to earlier similar projects. Professional cost estimating models use parametric cost estimating relationships, which relate cost to measurable cost drivers such as mass, number of systems produced, and technical difficulty. The estimates produced by comparison to pas...
- Harry W. Jones
- 2016
Mar 26, 2024 · The pricing strategy, as Musk explained, aims to make Mars travel economically feasible for about 1 million people, essential for establishing a city on the red planet.
- Jeannine Mancini
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 ...
Oct 27, 2022 · Cost: $140 billion -- for the first 9 trips While a lot of the technology has changed since the 1960s, and costs have almost certainly dropped over the past 60 years, projecting future costs...
Feb 11, 2019 · At the time, he estimated trips to Mars would cost about $140,000 per ton (taking into account transporting things like luggage, food and life support). But he said at the time he believed...
