How Expensive Is A Piece Of Mars? NASA's Mars Sample Return!

I explain how expensive NASA's Mars Sample Return Mission is and what needs to change!

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Editing: John Young, Alex Potvin, Stefanie Schlang
Photography: John Cargile, John Winkopp & Stefanie Schlang
3D Animation: Voop3D
Script & Research: Eryk Gawron, Oskar Wrobel, Felix Schlang
LIVE Production: Astro Roadie
Host: Felix Schlang
Production: Stefanie & Felix Schlang
Graphics & Media Processing: Jonathan Heuer, Felix Schlang

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⭐NASA
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[Now_Time_For_Science]

$11B isn't actually that much, and that cost is over 4 years, so under $4B a year, and given the total US government budget for military spending is $824B just this year alone, its actually a very cheap mission.

[mattfromwiisports]

Or, hear me out, we just send a human to mars to build a neat little Martian house to study that Martian soil.

[databaseerror-]

11 billion would actually be kind of impressively low

[Kenny_cuh]

If those samples could help develop missiles nasa could have lockheeds 600 billion

[rhls]

can't we just order a few less fighter jets, take that money and get the samples back?

[emicadic]

11 billion is crazy expensive?! It actually cheap! Very cheap!

[REDACTEDSCP]

Damn bro the military budget is 820 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR and congress cant afford 11 billion to retrieve soil from mars?

[regolith]

Rock samples, not soil samples. Drilled from carefully selected rocks in specific locations for maximum scientific value.

[pyotrberia]

Elon promised NASA to get the samples back for $99.95 but he needed $3Billion first for some important rocket development. NASA said "That sounds legit" and handed over the money.

[moodhot]

the dirt from mars will became "unobtanium"

[Xhydraulics]

Why don't nasa collaborate with ISRO? ISRO is doing space missions with a fraction of budget

[davidsingh]

It’s important to note, that most military spending isn’t on materials, its salaries across the entire design and construction industries.

[vincentbarnett]

Remind me how much it has cost to get the rover to Mars and for it to get to the point of trying to retrieve what it has done.

[davidsingh]

Michigan DHS/CPS annual spending is are $12 billion.

[Fatpumpumlovah]

I said it day #1 when they announced they will just drop the samples on the ground.

[davidyates]

I bought a Martian Nakhlite meteorite. It's tiny but it's still from Mars. I also bought a Moon meteorite as well, also tiny. But they get super expensive the bigger ones you get

[John-qnex]

Something that might be a lot more efficient and less expensive would be to send a mobile robotic laboratory to Mars that can do literally every single thing that might be necessary to test these soil samples remotely where they are situated. Another thing to keep in mind is that what looks like a lot of money in the public changes very quickly when we start talking about private. There is literally unlimited money in the private world figuratively speaking. Although the gold clause was abrogated, and therefore no real money exists in the world (at least in the public), the credit that each and every man and woman has attached to them in the private is actually unlimited. While it isn't exactly money, it has an unlimited value. Basically your signature is what commercially constitutes a "promise to pay" (an IOU), WHICH IS WHAT REPLACED THE GOLD STANDARD. THIS MEANS THAT IF YOU KNOW HOW, YOU CAN LITERALLY GET ANYTHING WITH YOUR SIGNATURE. It basically replaced gold as money.

[Jeremy.Klakson]

'Crazy pricey' xD it costs about 6 B2 Spirit bombers, USAF has 21 of those

[mikegardner]

Only have to bring the samples back to the Lunar Colony which should be starting up about the same time. Give them something to do besides work in hydroponics all day do they can eat.

[Infernoblade]

So, why don't they build it with as small scale mass spectrometer on board?