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Time for a moon mission [edit section]
- 1 day - travel to space center
- 10 days - prep time (on ground)
- 1 day for launch -
- 1 day for refuel in orbit
- 3 days transit to moon
- 5 days on moon
- 3 days return
- 1 day landing
- 1 day flight home
Total = 26 days:
- 26 days = 24 days from arrival at training center + 2 days earth travel
- 24 days = 10 days training + 14 days in space
- 14 days =
- 5 days launch, refuel, transit
- 5 days on moon
- 4 days return (transit, land)
- 14 days =
- 24 days = 10 days training + 14 days in space
Number of Passengers [edit section]
Assumption is 40 passengers and 4 crew
Costs for a moon mission [edit section]
Here is an expected cost for a moon mission:
- Training: $1.6M
- 10 days
- physicals, suit fitting and training, centrifuge testing,
- ship familiarization, space safety protocols, drills
- moon base familiarization, moon safety protocols
- 40 training staff
- 40 x 10 days x $2K per day = $800K
- centrifuge testing
- 40 x $20K per session = $800K
- 10 days
- Vehicle usage: $12M
- $240M / 40 uses (8M per use) + ($4M profit and refurb per use) = $12M
- Launch services: $1M
- Fuel: $9.5M
- primary: $500k
- 6 x Fuel launch: $1500K = $9M
- 6 x lunar fuel depot (fuel and transit): $1500K = $9M
- Food: $1M
- 44 x 24 days x $1000 per day = $1M
- Supplies: $600K
- 44 x 14 days x $1000 per day = $600K
- Suit rental: $800K
- 40 x 20 days x $1000 per day = $800K
- Staff: 4 person crew - $500K (4 at $125K each)
- commander, excursion specialist
- navigator, medic
- crew1, photographer, lecturer
- crew2, excursion specialist, scientist
- Moon base (and moon support equipment) rental: $4M
- 5 days at $20K per night, per person - $4M
- Ground support: $500k
- 36 people (12 people x 3 (8-hour rotations) x 14 days * ~$1000 per shift)
- tracking, ship monitoring
- 10 people - health monitoring, support (1 for 4 clients)
- 36 people (12 people x 3 (8-hour rotations) x 14 days * ~$1000 per shift)
Cost Table [edit section]
| Item | Cost |
| Training | 1.6 |
| Vehicle | 12 |
| Launch | 1 |
| Fuel | 18.5 |
| Food | 1 |
| Supplies | 0.6 |
| Suits | 0.8 |
| Crew | 0.5 |
| Moon Base | 4 |
| Ground | 0.5 |
| Total | 40.5 |
| Per person: | 1.0125 |
Approximately $1M per person
Resources for cost estimates [edit section]
ship cost [edit section]
- comparison of cruise ship costs: https://gangwaze.com/blog/how-much-does-a-cruise-ship-cost
- between $34M and $670M - for ocean-going cruise ships in the 2500 passenger range (at the top)
- estimate for price of a test article = $20M?
- estimate for the price of a fully-outfitted space station module = ??
- how much was the Destiny module for ISS?
- don't know - here's some info about Destiny
- here's some info about ISS modules
- how much was the Destiny module for ISS?
- total development cost to get to human-rated dragon capsule = 6.5B
Crew [edit section]
- Crew responsibilities (corresponding job in cruise industry, in parens)
- administration (captain)
- navigation
- shore excursion coordinators (bosun)
- photography
- cooking (cook)
- cleaning (steward)
- ship maintenance (bosun)
- engineer (engineer)
- science officer (science officer)