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Re:New NASA X-Plane Construction Begins by mhalle on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @11:00AM (#16801835)
Perhaps someone with more experience can answer this question: is this an exceptionally large contract ($247 million)? The article implies that it covers the plane and its delivery, not the whole research project.
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Re:New NASA X-Plane Construction Begins by cheeko1234 on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @11:33AM (#16802094)
For aeronautics, it's exceptionally large. For NASA as a whole, it's not (e.g. James Webb is >$8bn).

This is the later phase of the NASA’s Quiet SuperSonic Technology Preliminary Design, or QueSST Project.

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Re:New NASA X-Plane Construction Begins by mturmon on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @11:14AM (#16801937)
As a relevant NASA benchmark, the New Horizons mission to Pluto costed $700m - spread out over more time.
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