Exploration of Mars

In 2022, a 200 metric ton spacecraft that could take people to Mars in days. Mars spaceflights are estimated to cost $20 million/person. If the cost of  equipment and supplies for three month are included, the estimated cost is $5 billion compared to NASA estimates of about $500 billion. NASA’s old technology is very inefficiency. The mass of spacecraft divided by the mass of the launch vehicle is about 1% efficient compared to 99% efficiency for Mirror Propulsion Spacecraft.

We are working on 200 Metric Ton manned Mars Spacecraft that will enable scientists to begin exploring Mars in 2023. A Mars Task Force needs to be established to determine what the scientific community really wants to do once they land on Mars.

Mars Spacecraft(200 Metric Ton)

Key Milestones are to start design in 2019, manufacture in 2020, flight test in 2021, and manned exploration of the Mars in 2022.

We estimate that the spacecraft would take about seven to ten days to travel to Mars, seven to ten days to orbit Mars to find desirable areas to explore, two months for surface exploration, and then another seven to ten days to return to Earth. Manned shuttlecraft would enable people to explore numerous locations on Mars that could include dropping off experiments.