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Re:Nasa head of human spaceflight resigns days before 'histo... by tengbretson on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @10:44AM (#23247424)
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy was developed on a budget roughly equal to 10 days worth of NASA's annual funding.
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Re:Nasa head of human spaceflight resigns days before 'histo... by TYPE_FASTER on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @11:36AM (#23248146)
NASA's budget also includes astronaut training, educational outreach, and a ton of other programs. There's a categorical breakout of the NASA budget here: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/fy2021_...
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Re:Nasa head of human spaceflight resigns days before 'histo... by mturmon on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @01:17PM (#23249342)
To mention a few more, the NASA budget includes human operations (ISS), and the entire science enterprise (Earth, Planetary, Astrophysics) - things including Hubble, JWST, Curiosity.
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Re:Nasa head of human spaceflight resigns days before 'histo... by dimator on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @11:55AM (#23248376)
This seems like a pointless comparison. Why should one SpaceX program be compared to all of what NASA does?

It would be like saying "angry birds was developed with 10 days worth of Microsoft's annual budget".

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Re:Nasa head of human spaceflight resigns days before 'histo... by NikolaeVarius on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @12:43PM (#23248968)
This is a meaningless comparison.
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Re:Nasa head of human spaceflight resigns days before 'histo... by craftinator on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @10:57AM (#23247595)
Do you have a source for that? If true, that's absolutely amazing.
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Re:Nasa head of human spaceflight resigns days before 'histo... by tengbretson on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @11:10AM (#23247801)
This article quoted Musk as saying the falcon heavy cost "over $500 million" and that it had been awarded contracts worth $500-750 million that recouped its investment. So let's pin it at $600 mil for this comparison. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/13/spacex-falcon-heavy-rocket-o...

NASA's 2020 budget of $22.6 billion from here: https://www.planetary.org/get-involved/be-a-space-advocate/b...

22.6 billion * (10/365) = $712 million

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