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Apollo was many missions, totally bootstrapping and industry, plus lots and lots of infrastructure. This included all the subsystems, multiple engines and so on
by panick21_ 4y ago
Apollo was many missions, totally bootstrapping and industry, plus lots and lots of infrastructure. This included all the subsystems, multiple engines and so on and so on.
SLS since 2011 cost $20 billion, add $20 billion for Orion. Add to that 5-10$ billion in infrastructure. These 50 billion $, didn't pay for the development of a single engine.
- DennisP 4y agoYep, the Apollo cost includes eight trips to the moon (landing or flyby) plus several trips to LEO. That's another $50B or so tacked onto Artemis just for the SLS launch costs. That takes us to $100B total, to reproduce something done 50 years ago with an engine from 40 years ago. Plus it doesn't include the landing module, which SpaceX is working on.