ST Alpha - "Before commercial crew launches, NASA was spending $1 biillion per astronaut to orbit. SpaceX is charging $55 million per astronaut. -- (link)" (Reading a Post)

SlickerTalk
Search Archives
The Leaderboard
The FAQ

Login
Create Account

Search Dr. S. Talk
TT/ST Wiki
How Well Do You Know ...

RSS Feed

Hosting by DigitalOcean

Support ST on Ko-Fi

Down to Post

Backboards:

Posts: 153

Before commercial crew launches, NASA was spending $1 biillion per astronaut to orbit. SpaceX is charging $55 million per astronaut. -- (link)

Posted by TWuG May 23 '22, 16:50

(No message)

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/05/how-nasa-finally-melted-its-giant-self-licking-ice-cream-cone/ (arstechnica.com)

Responses:

Without clicking any of these links, I thought it was about $500M for each shuttle launch. Unless they were sending only half an astronaut each time.. - zork May 23, 17:23
that's an incredibly misleading comparison. -- (edited) - znufrii May 23, 16:54 5
- It's about 1/10 the cost per kilo to orbit as it was a decade ago. - TWuG May 23, 17:03 4
  - It's going to drop again with starship, right? Or is that a starship-inclusive number? -- nm - Beryllium May 23, 17:34 1
    - I believe the 1/10th is just with Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy, since they actually fly. -- nm - TWuG May 23, 19:26
  - that's what leveraging decades of government research gets you. -- nm - mafic May 23, 17:33 1
    - You'd think, then, that ULA with its decades of experience in the field would be the lowest cost provider. - TWuG May 23, 19:29

Post a message top

Replies are disabled on threads older than 7 days.