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sure there is plenty of money in tourism
by lajolla 9y ago
sure there is plenty of money in tourism
- Pinckney 9y agoConsider just the launch cost of an Apollo type mission. S-IVB is 110 Mg, the Command/Service module was 30 Mg, and the lunar module was 16 Mg. That gives us about 150 metric tonnes as a reasonable estimate of the payload to LEO needed for a lunar trip. Right now, you're looking at about $340M (at $2200/kg) on two falcon heavies to boost that. If we handwave R&D and engineering costs, you're still looking at around $170M per person on the moon. Of the not-so-many people who can afford that, how many people do you think will actually do so?
- ccozan 9y agoThey [0] ? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_Billionaires https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_Billionaires