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Note that the incremental cost of a shuttle mission was $450 million, but that ignores the high fixed costs. Excluding sunk development costs the average price
by InclinedPlane 10y ago
Note that the incremental cost of a shuttle mission was $450 million, but that ignores the high fixed costs. Excluding sunk development costs the average price of a shuttle mission throughout the life of the program was a whopping $1.2 billion.
- jessriedel 10y agoOK, so that's a factor of 2.7, but not even halfway to a factor of 10. Sorry to be a stickler on this, but I like to use the ISS as an example of outrageously inefficient science, and so I'd like to make sure this isn't completely attributable to the cost of the shuttle (which, I think we agree, was it's own terrible boondoggle).