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The test flights include R&D. The ~1b per flight of Saturn V was excluding R&D when the program was churning along. I guess you could argue that it's never mea
by boxed 1y ago
The test flights include R&D. The ~1b per flight of Saturn V was excluding R&D when the program was churning along.
I guess you could argue that it's never meaningful to compare anything that isn't a commodity though, which certainly isn't the case here. But I find that silly.
- anonymars 1y agoThat's not what I'm saying. We are comparing 1 billion per operational Saturn V flight to...what? There are no operational Starship flights to compare with. What sense is there in comparing the cost of manned flights to the moon and back with unmanned suborbital test flights?
- boxed 1y agoSaturn V did have at least one suborbital mission with Spacelab though. So not as hard to compare as you say.
- dragonwriter 1y agoSpacelab was carried on Shuttle flights, Skylab was launched on a modified Saturn V. And it was low orbit, not suborbital.