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If you could pull 30 billion dollars out of your wallets, who would you give it to to get to Mars first. Which government would you trust the most to get the job done quickly, and bring back results. The mission is to build a colony on mars with 20 people, living.

A few countries off the top of my head would be,
USA
RUSSIA
BRITIAN
JAPAN
CHINA

and there are more of course,

Who could do it the fastest,
My money would be on russia. how about yours

Thirty billion is not enough for anyone to do it. $100 billion might be enough given effective management and fraud prevention, but anything less is a non-starter.

Enlightenment wrote:Thirty billion is not enough for anyone to do it. $100 billion might be enough given effective management and fraud prevention, but anything less is a non-starter.

the US estimated it would cost them 50 billion, their current budget it 18 billion dollars,

the russian space budget i believe is 700 million
and they are doing not to bad,

The russians are used to doing a lot with nothing, i think they could do it with 30

You can Give it to the United States of Tragic. I can do it with under $1000. I'll pocket the rest.

For the last time, where the fuck is Britian?!

The best bet is on a US-Russia-Japan joint venture.

Russia is used to doing more with less, and they have more experience with long-term space missions than anyone else. But I'm not sure they have the ability to develop the new technology needed.

The United States certainly has the infrastructure and technical ability, but given NASA's propensity to gold-plate everything, $30 billion probably wouldn't cover pizza and coffee expenses for Mission Control ("We'll take a large pepperoni and dodo to be delivered, please").

Britain doesn't have the infrastructure or experience to do it by itself. The European Space Agency has no manned spaceflight experience.

Japan would be starting nearly from scratch. Again, no manned spaceflight experience.

China doesn't have the experience or technology yet. Give them 20 years.

In short, nobody.

I don't think many would support a Mars mission at the price given, but a joint mission may provide more money. Perhaps researching a less expensive method of getting into space would lower the cost, but any money saved would probably go into researching the thing.

I think Canada could do it.

Did y'all know that if the Australian government hadn't decided that space would not have been a profitable long term investment and sold off all our research and equipment to the US in the '50s then there would have been a good chance that Australia would have won the "space race"?

Omega-13 wrote:If you could pull 30 billion dollars out of your wallets, who would you give it to to get to Mars first.

That's about how much Apollo cost in during the 60s. To your answer: none.

While you can't get to Mar's on thirty billion, you can conquer Gabon very easily with it. So I'll do that and use its oil to start my own African Empire. In 100 years it might reach Mars.