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Do you believe it would be a better decision to spend 24 times more on every actuator? A key reason SpaceX matters at all is that it can launch things into spa
by AlchemistCamp 3y ago
Do you believe it would be a better decision to spend 24 times more on every actuator?
A key reason SpaceX matters at all is that it can launch things into space at a fraction of what it costs NASA, Russia, China or any other rival to.
- ChainOfFools 3y agoAre you sure about that multiple? Exactly how much did musk spend paying an elite aerospace engineer 9 months of elite aerospace engineer salary plus load, to design something that saved SpaceX maybe 20% of that? This is not even getting into the opportunity cost of all the other things that engineer could have been working on during that time, things that had not already been developed and proven. It sounds like what Davis got was first quote and must threw it out, if this is the actual story it seems pretty strange that they didn't at least try to work that first-bid number down before discarding the idea of outsourcing the part altogether.