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Did you look at the development cost of the apollo program vs intuitive machines budget? And the number of participating people? The IM-1 mission was about 100
by echoangle 2y ago
Did you look at the development cost of the apollo program vs intuitive machines budget? And the number of participating people?
The IM-1 mission was about 100 million dollars, a single Saturn V launch was more than a billion. Total Apollo budget for Apollo (6 crewed landings and a few manned missions for testing, and some uncrewed test flights) was 260 billion in todays money.
- ForOldHack 2y ago"The Saturn V program cost was $41.3 billion in present day dollars and its cost per launch was $3.2 billion also in present day dollars." Thus, the IM-1 was cheap.