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At the Apollo program's peak the US was also putting more than 4% of the total US budget toward the program. If the EU put more than 4% of it's total budget tow
by mlindner 4y ago
At the Apollo program's peak the US was also putting more than 4% of the total US budget toward the program. If the EU put more than 4% of it's total budget toward ESA I'm sure they could do something similar.
But that's not the point. The point of Falcon 9 was to reduce the price of getting to space. That was purportedly the promise of Ariane 6 but now there has simply been goal post moving to "it's to maintain independent access to space".
- SoftTalker 4y agoThe price of a launch is not necessarily determined by the money spent developing the launch capability. What is the EU spending compared to what SpaceX spent to develop its launch vehicles?
- panick21_ 4y agoPeople love to quote this 4% total budget thing. Like yes we get it, but please stop just repeating that stuff. Government did much less stuff in 1960s, that was before the Great Society and many other things. 4% total budget in 1960s and 4% in a modern Western state are totally different things.