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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.
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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
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May 9, 2018 · Spoiler alert for those who do want the big ticket price: To get a US mission to Mars before 2050, the program must cost less than $220 billion, according to a significant 2014 government...
Feb 19, 2021 · All previous misisons to Mars have cost billions of dollars and Perseverance is no different. NASA expects to spend $2.7 billion on the project according to research from The Planetary...
Mar 8, 2015 · Transportation costs alone could total over $100 billion before the first Mars mission in 2035. A ballpark cost of the first Mars mission in 2035 would total $230 billion.
May 8, 2017 · Money spoke with Lee about the challenges facing Mars missions, and why it's important to launch Mars exploration missions despite them. At this point, what would it cost to send someone to Mars? Pascal Lee: The Apollo lunar landing program cost $24 billion in 1960s dollars over 10 years. That means NASA set aside 4 percent of U.S. GDP to do ...
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Mar 29, 2019 · 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...
