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Falcon Heavy Flew 3x on a development budget of over 500 million, probably under a billion with dev -> launch time being around 6 years or so. SLS current dev
by NikolaeVarius 7y ago
Falcon Heavy Flew 3x on a development budget of over 500 million, probably under a billion with dev -> launch time being around 6 years or so.
SLS current dev budget is over 7 billion dollars in 8 years, and they haven't finished assembling their first stack.
- criley2 7y agoFalcony Heavy only exists because NASA and the taxpayer have given billions to Tesla to develop it and fly it. To consider SpaceX as anything more than a small government contractor attached firmly to the side of the NASA budget is disingenuous. SpaceX itself is hailed as a NASA success for lowering the cost of launching, and an example of smart government spending.
- NikolaeVarius 7y agoNews indicates that no government funding was used for its (Falcon Heavy) development. http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2466/1 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2466/1
- criley2 7y agoThis is pointless semantics. 1) Without the billions NASA has awarded Space X prior to Falcon, there is no SpaceX. 2) Without the billions NASA awarded them during Falcon development for other projects, SpaceX would have not gotten enough money from investors, who rightfully valued the company based on their NASA contracts