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Nasa was spending close to 5% of the federal budget back then, about $35-40 billion per year in today's dollars. The space program cost hundreds of billions.
by sixQuarks 10y ago
Nasa was spending close to 5% of the federal budget back then, about $35-40 billion per year in today's dollars. The space program cost hundreds of billions.
spaceX has done it by raising less than $1.5 billion total
- rtkwe 10y agoIt helps drive the costs down when you're not inventing the entire field basically from scratch. Not saying what they've accomplished isn't impressive but it's very much a 'standing on the soldiers of giants' situation.
- greeneggs 10y ago> spaceX has done it by raising less than $1.5 billion total NASA has itself given SpaceX more than that. Wikipedia says SpaceX has taken $5 billion from NASA, with over $1 billion more from US defense contracts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX#NASA_contracts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX#NASA_contracts
- sixQuarks 10y agoyeah, but that's revenue, not the same thing.