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Big permanent moonbase by 2021 using Spacex and Bigelow has been the...

• http://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang

Howard Bloom makes the obvious case that if NASA wants to return to the moon they need to ditch the Space Launch System and go with Spacex and the Falcon Heavy and Falcon 9 launchers.

Nextbigfuture and any other honest source have pointed out that the Space Launch system is a massive waste of money.


The combined development cost of the SLS and Orion will be at least $30 billion -- or about $3 billion a year spread out over at least 10 years. If you consider the operational life cycle of the program will be 30 years, similar to the Space Shuttle, then, assuming just one launch per year, the pro-rated cost is $1 billion a year.

That's just for development - it does not include operating costs.

 


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