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Or the equivalent of 3 Space Shuttle launches.

• acqq 9y ago
  That's really the best way to compare the costs, bravo. The numbers are: 135 lauches, 196 billions total cost, which gives an average Shuttle launch cost of 1.452 billions.
  • theptip 9y ago
    I get where you're all coming from, but the "average shuttle launch cost" as calculated in this thread is a misleading metric. It's not that close to the real price of launching a shuttle, but it sounds like it should be. The marginal cost of one additional shuttle launch isn't the same as the per-launch average across the whole program; the first launch was incredibly expensive (presumably in the tens of billions), and subsequent launches were less expensive. NASA claims $450M per launch[1] at the end of the program. [1]: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/about/information/shuttle_faq.html#10 https://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/about/information/shutt...
    • erikpukinskis 9y ago
      $450 million is equally misleading though, isn’t it?
      • theptip 9y ago
        Why is that?
        • acqq 9y ago
          Only the last launches were cheaper and the average was much obviously higher. And yet there were 135 launches, theoretically (and somewhat in practice) allowing improvements. There was only one LHC being built.