{"id":667,"date":"2007-07-04T13:59:47","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T18:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=667"},"modified":"2007-07-04T19:20:30","modified_gmt":"2007-07-05T00:20:30","slug":"34000-cost-to-lift-one-1kg-from-earth-to-the-vicinity-of-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=667","title":{"rendered":"$34,000 = cost to lift one 1kg from earth to the vicinity of Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"110\" src=\"\/media\/RotatingDollar.gif\"  height=\"44\" style=\"width: 110px; height: 44px\" \/>In this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevator.com\/archives\/2007\/07\/where_can_we_af.html\">post<\/a>\u00a0on the Space Elevator Reference, Dr. Bryan Laubscher discusses what it will cost to lift 1kg from the surface of earth to the vicinity of Mars using rocket technology.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Dr. Laubscher asks (and answers) the question:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;My question is: How much exploration, especially manned exploration, of the moon and Mars will we be doing at $34,000 per kilogram? My guess is that we\u2019ll do pretty much what we\u2019ve done over the last 35 years since the last Apollo mission.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dr. Laubscher\u00a0makes a compelling, cost-justified case for a Space Elevator.\u00a0 Too bad <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=644\">&#8220;the concept is not of interest to NASA.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=579\">money<\/a> is still on a US business-consortium or a joint venture between Dubai and India to build the first, earth-based Space Elevator&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"240\" src=\"\/media\/RotatingCarbonNanotube.gif\"  height=\"240\" style=\"width: 240px; height: 240px\" \/>In a related article, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstscience.com\/home\/perspectives\/editorials\/how-to-get-to-space-cheap-page-2-1_32986.html\">How to Get to Space &#8211; cheap<\/a>&#8220;, Andrey Kobilnyk gives the cost of lifting 1kg from the surface of the earth to LEO ad $19,000.\u00a0 Dr. Laubscher had given this cost as $10,000.\u00a0 If Mr. Kobilnyk is correct, then it costs even more to lift one 1kg from earth to the vicinity of Mars.\u00a0 He, too, argues that a Space Elevator, built from carbon nanotubes, would be a much more cost-effective way to solve this problem&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>(Money Graphic courtesy of <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/mutualfunds.about.com\/cs\/humor\/l\/blclipartgal.htm\"><em>Money Clip Art Gallery<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0 Rotating nanotube graphic from <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstscience.com\/home\/perspectives\/editorials\/how-to-get-to-space-cheap-page-2-1_32986.html\"><em>FirstScience.com<\/em><\/a><em>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this post\u00a0on the Space Elevator Reference, Dr. Bryan Laubscher discusses what it will cost to lift 1kg from the surface of earth to the vicinity of Mars using rocket technology.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Dr. Laubscher asks (and answers) the question: &#8220;My question is: How much exploration, especially manned exploration, of the moon and Mars will we be doing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-entries","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}