{"id":555,"date":"2012-07-29T15:37:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-29T15:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/2012\/07\/29\/peter-diamandis-on-mars-to-stay\/"},"modified":"2013-06-30T19:49:42","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T19:49:42","slug":"peter-diamandis-on-mars-to-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/2012\/07\/29\/peter-diamandis-on-mars-to-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Diamandis on Mars to Stay"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“I think privately funded missions are\u00a0the only way to go to Mars\u00a0with humans because I think the best way to go is on “one-way<\/span><\/a>” colonization flights and no government will likely sanction such a risk. The timing for this could well be within the next 20 years. It will fall within the hands of a small group of tech billionaires who view such missions as the way to leave their mark on humanity.”<\/p>\n

“The cost, complexity and risk of round trip missions is too high. I also am concerned that they typically result in flag-and-footprint missions which is what happened with Apollo. Government space mission budgets always get cut and compromised in the long run – it’s just the nature of the beast – and the science and meaningful long-term infrastructure is what gets cut out. With a one-way mission, you have to make sure you have the long-term infrastructure in place.”<\/p>\n

“A private Mars mission is likely a five to ten billion endeavor and you won’t see multiple teams ever raising this level. If we ever re-invent launch technology to reduce the cost by 100-fold, then I think a “humans to Mars prize” would make a lot of sense.”<\/p>\n

“I’m a big fan of heading to the asteroids first. In this light, I’d be very interested in a human outpost on Phobos before heading to the Martian surface. I do think this type of a human mission is within the scope, cost, and risk of governments.”<\/p>\n

(Peter Diamandis, X Prize creator (interview January 2011 with ExploreMars MEM Vol1, Issue 1)<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“I think privately funded missions are\u00a0the only way to go to Mars\u00a0with humans because I think the best way to go is on “one-way” colonization flights and no government will likely sanction such a risk. The timing for this could well be within the next 20 years. It will fall within the hands of a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,81,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mars-to-stay","category-peter-diamandis","category-transcripts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1313,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions\/1313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}