"Our goal is to get it roughly equivalent to cost of a medium house in the United States, about $200,000. Musk said he would like to land people on Mars as early as 2024. SpaceX wants to send an unmanned capsule, called Red Dragon, to the surface of Mars to test descent, entry and landing systems. NASA wants to be able to land payloads weighing up to about 30 tons on Mars. So far, the heaviest vehicle to land on Mars was the one-ton Curiosity Rover.

Source: Economic Times September 27, 2016 20:48 UTC