Given time frames from various sources for various elements of a mission, doesn’t that mean we could put four colonists on mars in about four years for less than $250m?
I screwed up my calculations. How embarrassing? Add one refueling in LEO and several prepositioned landers to bring the cost up to about a billion. It’s the second landing that gets cheaper.
Yes, by that 13.6 mT I think he means either to just put it on a trajectory towards Mars or put it into Mars orbit, not actually to land.
However, my opinion is that with the discovery of large amounts of water ice near surface on Mars, setting up orbital refueling stations at Mars would not be too difficult. These would allow you to enter orbit and/or land.
Bob Clark
I gather that the audience for this interview was just the average person, not particularly connected to space, like a network news interview.
So it doesn’t bother me too much. Michelle Fields conducting the interview rather than some network news anchor gives it some appeal.
Not a single new piece of information. Shame.
I wish interviewers would go read the transcripts of previous interviews before asking the same softball questions over and over again.
Study before doing an interview? Heretic! You obviously are not a recent graduate from journalism school. Where’s that red button?
BTW Trent, in those transcripts Elon mentions 13.6mt by FH to Mars.
Given time frames from various sources for various elements of a mission, doesn’t that mean we could put four colonists on mars in about four years for less than $250m?
I screwed up my calculations. How embarrassing? Add one refueling in LEO and several prepositioned landers to bring the cost up to about a billion. It’s the second landing that gets cheaper.
Yes, by that 13.6 mT I think he means either to just put it on a trajectory towards Mars or put it into Mars orbit, not actually to land.
However, my opinion is that with the discovery of large amounts of water ice near surface on Mars, setting up orbital refueling stations at Mars would not be too difficult. These would allow you to enter orbit and/or land.
Bob Clark
I gather that the audience for this interview was just the average person, not particularly connected to space, like a network news interview.
So it doesn’t bother me too much. Michelle Fields conducting the interview rather than some network news anchor gives it some appeal.
Bob Clark