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Re:Why The US Can Beat China: The Facts About SpaceX Costs by cowkingdeluxe on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @02:40PM (#3859540)
Good point, and that $800 million was prorated over 4 years whereas NASA gets $18 billion annually.
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Re:Why The US Can Beat China: The Facts About SpaceX Costs by mitchty on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @03:15PM (#3859719)
NASA also has fair amount more research going on unrelated to "build rockets" as well so direct numerical comparison isn't exactly valid.
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