Colonizing The Moon May Be 90 Percent Cheaper Than We Thought

Let me get this straight. For $10 billion we are going to:
Develop and deploy at least one rover that can function in the cold of the lunar poles. NOTE: unless we get very lucky, multiple rovers will be necessary.
Develop reusable spacecraft to get from LEO to the Moon and back
Launch people to LEO and then transport them to the Moon and back a number of times. Note: current prices for people to LEO are $26.25 million per person (best advertised price).
Develop technologies to mine lunar ice
Deliver and operate Bigelow modules on the moon
Develop an L2 fuel depot

or is the $10 billion just for the first human mission?

Id be very interested to know what the pricing methodology was.

> On Jul 17, 2016, at 5:49 AM, sraj sraj99@... [spacesettlers] wrote:
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> Returning humans to the moon could cost 90 percent less than expected, bringing estimated costs down from $100 billion to $10 billion. That's something that NASA could afford on its current deep space human spaceflight budget.
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> A factor of ten reduction in cost changes everything, said Mark Hopkins, executive committee chair of the National Space Society, in a press release.
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> http://www.popsci.com/colonizing-moon-may-be-90-percent-cheaper-we-thought
>

Develop and deploy at least one rover that can function in the cold of the lunar poles. NOTE: unless we get very lucky, multiple rovers will be necessary.
Develop reusable spacecraft to get from LEO to the Moon and back
Launch people to LEO and then transport them to the Moon and back a number of times. Note: current prices for people to LEO are $26.25 million per person (best advertised price).
Develop technologies to mine lunar ice
Deliver and operate Bigelow modules on the moon
Develop an L2 fuel depot
or is the $10 billion just for the first human mission?
Id be very interested to know what the pricing methodology was.
On Jul 17, 2016, at 5:49 AM, sraj
sraj99@...
[spacesettlers] <
spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com
> wrote:
Returning humans to the moon could cost 90 percent less than expected, bringing estimated costs down from $100 billion to $10 billion. That's something that NASA could afford on its current deep space human spaceflight budget.
A factor of ten reduction in cost changes everything, said Mark Hopkins, executive committee chair of the National Space Society, in a press release.
http://www.popsci.com/colonizing-moon-may-be-90-percent-cheaper-we-thought