SpaceX's giant Starship Mars rocket nails critical 10th test flight
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#2How much money did it cost to orbit Saturn V (including R&D of course)?
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#3"That was absolutely incredible," SpaceX Build Reliability Engineer Amanda Lee said during live launch commentary. "A huge congrats to all the teams here."
"Great work by the SpaceX team!!!" SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wrote on X after the flight.
Amazing accomplishment. Always a thrill to watch live.
SpaceX conducted 134 launches in 2024 and is targeting a record-breaking 160-170 orbital launches in 2025.
Re: SpaceX's giant Starship Mars rocket nails critical 10th test flight
#4How much money did it cost to orbit Saturn V (including R&D of course)?
According to wikipedia, the entire cost of the saturn v project was US$185 million, equivalent to US$33.6 billion today. That's from R&D to all launches
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#5https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45033563 (195 comments)
Re: SpaceX's giant Starship Mars rocket nails critical 10th test flight
#6How much money did it cost to orbit Saturn V (including R&D of course)?
Adding to previous comment, looks like the cost per launch when the system was up and running was ~1billion USD inflation adjusted. I'm going to assume Starship will beat that easily.
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#7How much money did it cost to orbit Saturn V (including R&D of course)?
According to wikipedia, the entire cost of the saturn v project was US$185 million, equivalent to US$33.6 billion today. That's from R&D to all launches
Yes, I also can look trivial stuff up. That would include costs after the rocket first orbited the Earth, so it doesn't answer my question.
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#8"That was absolutely incredible," SpaceX Build Reliability Engineer Amanda Lee said during live launch commentary. "A huge congrats to all the teams here." "Great work by the SpaceX team!!!" SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wrote on X after the flight. Amazing accomplishment. Always a thrill to watch live. SpaceX conducted 134 launches in 2024 and is targeting a record-breaking 160-170 orbital launches in 2025. https://www.space…
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Re: SpaceX's giant Starship Mars rocket nails critical 10th test flight
#9How much money did it cost to orbit Saturn V (including R&D of course)?
How does that matter? It's doing a thing already done nearly 70 years ago but at its own pace.
I bet it will get to the moon cheaper, too, and the Muskonauts will use less expensive lenses than Hasselblads to take photos.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
According to wikipedia, the entire cost of the saturn v project was US$185 million, equivalent to US$33.6 billion today. That's from R&D to all launches
Yes, I also can look trivial stuff up. That would include costs after the rocket first orbited the Earth, so it doesn't answer my question.
No need to be condescending when communication is ambiguous. Your question can be better phrased as, "How much did it cost for Saturn V to reach the point where it could successfully orbit?" which I assume means "how much did it cost up to and including Apollo 4?"