Re:Starship Flight 7
by inemesitaffia on Saturday January 18, 2025 @03:22AM
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Well it's less than the $81 million QED.
I remember the talk of broomsticks and trampolines.
The price savings are clearly evident per that article.
The only reason Boeing ended up charging that much is the extra money NASA gave them.
It wasn't so from the beginning
So, NASA today is paying Boeing more than the monopoly prices Russia charged (up to 2016 or so), and paying both of them more than Russia was charging back when they were competing with the Space Shuttle. And it's paying SpaceX about half of the top price it payed Russia per seat, still nowhere close to an order of magnitude in cost savings.
[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/astronaut-cost-per-soyuz-sea...
[1] https://www.reuters.com/science/boeing-sending-first-astrona...