SpaceX Is Raising $500M at a $30.5B Valuation

Re:SpaceX Is Raising $500M at a $30.5B Valuation by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @10:35AM (#18707188)

> for totally different purposes

For every “send things to the ISS” and “put thing in orbit” mission, the two are directly comparable. The Space Shuttle simply wasn’t using its maximum capacity that often for big packages. The Space Shuttle was a boondoggle.

For crew launches, the per-person cost of the Shuttle still compares unfavourably to SpaceX’s projected crew launch costs. But projected isn’t actual, so we’ll let the Shuttle keep its spot for now.

(Special repair projects and ISS boosting are two things the Shuttle can do that SpaceX currently cannot.)

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Re:SpaceX Is Raising $500M at a $30.5B Valuation by sonnyblarney on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @10:58AM (#18707469)

The space shuttle carried up human beings, often to 'do stuff'.

That alone puts it in a completely different category than Falcon.

FYI many (most?) drone missions that the US does right now would not be carried out by manned aircraft for a whole host of reasons.

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