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- Humans to Mars Will Cost About "Half a Trillion Dollars" and Life Support Roughly Two Billion Dollars A recent estimate of the cost of the first human mission to Mars suggests that it could cost half a trillion dollars. This estimate is consistent with most past estimates.
ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20200000973Humans to Mars Will Cost About "Half a Trillion Dollars" and ...
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
- 2016
Sep 26, 2023 · Together with our partners, we will pioneer Mars and answer some of humanity’s fundamental questions: Was Mars home to microbial life? Is it today? Could it be a safe home for humans one day? What can it teach us about life elsewhere in the cosmos, or how life began on Earth? What can it teach us about Earth’s past, present, and future ...
Jul 9, 2016 · A recent estimate of the cost of the first human mission to Mars suggests that it could cost half a trillion dollars. This estimate is consistent with most past estimates. A similar cost number can easily be derived using mass-cost estimating factors based on the International Space Station (ISS) and other experience.
- Harry W. Jones
- 2016
Feb 11, 2019 · SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says the cost of moving to Mars will be low enough that Americans could "sell their home on Earth & move to Mars if they want."
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...
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But at what cost? According to NASA, the mission is expected to cost $2.9 billion. The hefty price tag makes Perseverance the third most expensive Mars mission, trailing Viking 1 & 2, and the Curiosity rover from 1975 and 2011, respectively.
