Good point, so I looked up inflation-adjusted Apollo costs, which came to $257 billion.[1] By contrast, SLS so far has been closer to $20 billion.[2] But I don

Good point, so I looked up inflation-adjusted Apollo costs, which came to $257 billion.[1] By contrast, SLS so far has been closer to $20 billion.[2] But I don't see this as excusing NASA/Congress. It's spending that money with the benefit of 50 years of technological advancement, but reusing technology from the 1980s to make a completely disposable rocket that will cost $4 billion per launch.[3] Meanwhile, SpaceX is spending an amount estimated in single-digit billions to develop a rapidly and completely reusable rocket of similar size, aiming at a launch cost two to three orders of magnitude lower. [1] https://www.planetary.org/space-policy/cost-of-apollo https://www.planetary.org/space-policy/cost-of-apollo [2] https://www.planetary.org/space-policy/cost-of-sls-and-orion https://www.planetary.org/space-policy/cost-of-sls-and-orion [3] https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/332275-nasa-auditor-reveals-unsustainable-cost-for-sls-launches https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/332275-nasa-auditor-reve...