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by ekianjo
1972 days ago
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> The internet says: "The Apollo program's total cost was about $25.4 billion, about $152 billion in today's dollars." And SpaceX will soon have the capability to do it with zillion times less. Seems like if you really want to make it possible, you can. |
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More like "if the hard groundwork has been done 60 years ago". It's not as if SpaceX had to quite literally invent the orbital rocket.
So after 60 years of manned spaceflight, 9 manned lunar missions, and 30 years of flying reusable crewed vehicles with a space station that has been permanently crewed since 1998 someone better do it MUCH more cheaply.
The culprit isn't just "space is hard" - it's decades of cost-plus contracts and heavy government involvement that kept costs high and results low.