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I think we should judge it by its budget. The same thing we admire on SpaceX and other companies. Wiki says total cost was $4.2 billion over its lifetime (incl
by jkot 11y ago
I think we should judge it by its budget. The same thing we admire on SpaceX and other companies.
Wiki says total cost was $4.2 billion over its lifetime (including development, assembly and orbital operation)
- jkaljundi 11y agoPeanuts! Not bad at all considering ISS cost of $35-$150 billion. NASA ISS budget is ~$1.5-3b per year.
- SXX 11y agoIt's hard to compare real costs considering huge part of USSR economy was working towards space projects and salaries aren't comparable.
- golergka 11y agoAccounting in high-profile USSR projects was often a joke and didn't represent the real cost.
- SXX 11y agoIt's just damn hard to evaluate how many hundreds of thousands people was working for aerospace industry and what would that cost in country with market economy. There also R&D costs that was at least partially included for ISS while they was almost secret in USSR and most of documents on it are still not declassified since it's all military R&D. This make me think of story on why something like Saturn V can't be easily replicated as it's was work of so many engineers.
- THRWAWA20160222 11y agoSpeaking of Saturn V engineers, this may interest you, http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-04/16/f-1-moon-rocket/viewall http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-04/16/f-1-moon-rock...
- SXX 11y agoI readed it before, but thanks for posting it anyway since it's really interesting read. Decide to link sources I was referring to. [1] http://amyshirateitel.com/2011/04/03/the-lost-art-of-the-saturn-v/ http://amyshirateitel.com/2011/04/03/the-lost-art-of-the-sat... [2] https://www.quora.com/How-did-we-lose-the-technology-to-go-to-the-Moon/answer/Robert-Frost-1 https://www.quora.com/How-did-we-lose-the-technology-to-go-t...
- DrScump 11y agoIf that's in 2016 dollars, that's the same as half of an Eastern Span of the (San Francisco) Bay Bridge.