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Re:After a 24-second test of its engines, the New Glenn rock... by zizee on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @07:19AM (#42565598)
It's ridiculous because the much ridiculed SLS has a launch cost of 2 billion dollars. If you think SpaceX is throwing billions of dollars into developing a vehicle that costs thisuch to launch, you clearly haven't been following SpaceX at all.

You know there is going to be more that 5 flights, and you know people in this thread are not amortizing total R&D into flight costs. People are talking about 68 million per flight for New Glenn, which no doubt has has many hundreds of millions on R&D spend, and hasn't flown one time.

Re:After a 24-second test of its engines, the New Glenn rock... by Retric on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @07:28AM (#42565635)
> You know there is going to be more than 5 flights

No, I don’t actually know the future. I can make predictions, but we could have a thermonuclear war tomorrow etc.