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See, I think the first mission of a crew four is too risky. You need a lot of people so that one person can mutually benefit from the labor of a large team. I say send every two years (since the window for flying to Mars is once every two years) about 60 in a huge fleet of about 15 ships. It looks like one ship costs about 10 billion dollars, so 150 billion split among about 20 nations is certainly doable. Sending 4 people is just too risky. The likelihood of death is too high. In order to settle this alien world you're going to have to do it in a major way, make a huge effort because the obstacles are enormous. I'm reading Robert Zubrin's book The Case for Mars right now and it is a real adventurous read.
The Mars Underground, Mars Homestead Foundation, and Mars Artists Community have also adopted Mars to Stay policy initiatives.
The October-November, 2010, Journal of Cosmology reprinted an article by Dirk Schulze-Makuch (Washington State University) and Paul Davies (Arizona State University) from the book The Human Mission to Mars: Colonizing the Red Planet." Highlights of their mission plan are:
The first human contingent would consist of a crew of four, ideally (if budget permits) distributed between two two-man spacecraft for mission redundancy.
See, I think the first mission of a crew four is too risky. You need a lot of people so that one person can mutually benefit from the labor of a large team. I say send every two years (since the window for flying to Mars is once every two years) about 60 in a huge fleet of about 15 ships. It looks like one ship costs about 10 billion dollars, so 150 billion split among about 20 nations is certainly doable. Sending 4 people is just too risky. The likelihood of death is too high. In order to settle this alien world you're going to have to do it in a major way, make a huge effort because the obstacles are enormous. I'm reading Robert Zubrin's book The Case for Mars right now and it is a real adventurous read.
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