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

that's an incredibly misleading comparison. -- (edited)

Posted by znufrii May 23 '22, 16:54

the $1 billion is the average over 50 or so years, not how much they would spend on a single launch today.

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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

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