Financial effort estimation

The cost to orbit

This page is a collection of Financial effort estimations. It covers all planning, preperations, material, transport, administration, etc.

Systematics

There are several stages that can be calculated separately:

Transportation from Earth to Earth's orbit
Transportation from Earth's orbit to Mars' orbit
Transportation from Earth's orbit to Mars' surface
Transportation from Earth's orbit to Earth's moon
Transportation from Earth's moon to Mars' orbit
Transportation from Earth's moon to Mars' surface

Shoot, who would have thuhogt that it was that easy?

Cost per person from Earth to Earth's orbit

Here the mass of the person with an average of 70 kg is only part of it. Additional mass is calculated for the life support systems. Rockets must be man-rated for them to be used in manned transportation to space.

Current:

USA, Space Shuttle: A partially re-usable manned transportation system. Cost estimates range from $100 million to $1 billion per launch.
Russia, Soyuz-TMA :A robust module in its fifth generation of Soyuz-spacecraft. Cheaper than the Space Shuttle.
China, Shenzou: The Chinese manned spacecraft, 3 manned flights have been launched.

Planned:

USA, SpaceX Dragon: An upcoming manned spacecraft, the first by a private corporation. Might enable cheap manned access to orbit by the SpaceX rockets using the Falcon9 rocket. Cost: $49.9 million, plus a Dragon module (cost unknown atm).
USA, Orion spacecraft: Will be using the new Ares I rocket, and will replace the Space Shuttle.

the ares 1 and ares V programm are canceled the new SLS launcher in devellopement ( 70 000KG to 130 000KG to earth's orbit ) will be use for Orion spacecraft