![]() ![]() According to the Planetary Society, if we include the famous crawler and ground infrastructure needed to support SLS and Orion, the total is over $49.9 billion.Īfter reaching a flight rate of one per week with its Falcon 9 rocket and perfecting partial reusability, SpaceX has flown 10 human missions to orbit, including as a NASA astronaut taxi to ISS and private missions. So far, Orion has cost about $20 billion. It will be thrown away after each flight.Īlong with the SLS is its Orion space capsule, which NASA says it needs to bring astronauts back to Earth. It cost taxpayers over $23 billion in its first 10 years, was years late, will cost over $4 billion per flight, and can only fly once every few years. NASA (Congress) has declared that the nation needs the Space Launch System (or what I call the Space Launch Scam) rocket to open the solar system. At its peak, the shuttle flew only five times in one year and helped lock the cost of flying to orbit at over $10,000 a pound. I bet it was cheaper than NASA's.īack in the 1970s, NASA told Congress the space shuttle would fly 50 times a year and carry payloads to space for $100 a pound. ![]() But I've been to Walmart and Harbor Freight. About a fifth as large as ISS, it is up there right now with a crew that varies between three and six on board. Their early versions led to today's Tiangong space station. Rather, NASA has announced it will be thrown away, and wants to build a new space station called Gateway to fulfill a way station function (only for the moon).Ĭhina said it would build a space station by 2011. While it has been a great source of information and research, ISS will have nothing to do with returning humans to the moon. Originally sold as a spaceport and research facility to support our exploration and expansion into the solar system, those elements of it were dropped to save money. It was never completed, and primary construction stopped around 2011 after we and our partners spent roughly $150 billion. The International Space Station (ISS) actually began its life in 1998. In 1984, NASA said we would have a space station - an outpost named Freedom, approved by President Reagan - by 1992 for $8 billion. For those who might be skeptical of my words or of Chinese promises, or are still bought into the NASA Artemis hype, let's compare: Space station(s) ![]()
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