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> I stopped watching when the criticism of Falcon 9’s pricing came up. Why should SpaceX, a private company, undercut itself? It’s already the cheapest (relative to mass; PSLV gives it a run for some orbits), most reliable and most frequent launch provider in the world. It makes sense for them to capture the delta as profit versus cut prices for the sake of it. (There is also no inflation adjusting done.)

Exactly, this is such an egregious claim that it proves there is no way this guy is arguing in good faith.

He says SpaceX only saves a tiny bit of money due to reuse because the retail price for F9 expendable is only a bit more than F9 reuseable.

That's like saying because the Big Mac costs $6.29 and the Big Mac combo costs $11.69, then therefore the drink and fries must cost McD's $5.40 to make. Just ridiculous.

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Musk expressed outrage that the Russians are massively overcharging the US so he went on to massively overcharge the US.

[ceejayoz]

Eh, Cargo/Crew Dragon is wildly cheaper than the non-functional Boeing option, and I suspect cheaper (both in cash, and geopolitically) than using Soyuz.

They've taken the lion's share of the market by being quite a bit cheaper. It makes plenty of sense to keep the price there and put the resulting profits into R&D.