PPT Slide
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- The NPV estimates included an R&D cost of approximately $1B
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- driven by earth-launch of 100 tons of facilities / infrastructure / raw materials
- financed mostly by debt and partially by venture capital
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- NASA partnership to develop enabling technologies for the Mars mission would substantially reduce debt burden while providing crucial enabling technologies to the Mars Mission
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- NASA only covers part of the cost but gets all of the benefits
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- NASA is also supporting sustainable growth by developing a key element of a space-based economy: space-based manufacturing