Re:SpaceX Grasshopper Flies High
by danielweber on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @11:20AM
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Maybe you are thinking of the costs of "re-using" the Space Shuttle. $250 Million to refurb it each time. But we do it for cost savings!
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Re:SpaceX Grasshopper Flies High
by InclinedPlane on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @12:00PM
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Fun fact, the cost of building a Shuttle orbiter from scratch was about $1.7 billion.
The cost of launching a Shuttle including the amortized development costs ended up being $1.5 billion per launch.