Space Shuttle
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Sankar: SpaceX Starship heavy reuse will reduce launch costs to $10-$20/kg
“The shuttle used to cost 50,000 dollars a kilogram to get to orbit. Cheaper mechanisms we had were like 20,000 dollars a kilogram. And with Starship heavy reuse, we're talking about 10 to 20 bucks.”
Gedmark: Space Shuttle era cost-plus contracts entrenched legacy defense contractors
“Then we entered into this era in the eighties, basically with the space shuttle, things got very entrenched with these cost plus contracts. And the major aerospace defense contractors were basically able to lock in, you know, these programs at a cost of billio…”
Gedmark: Commercial space emerged from dot-com wealth and Space Shuttle retirement
“So you really had all these ingredients of basically private individuals who had made enough money in the dot-com boom and had this passion for space to go and take a run at it. On the government side, you had the retirement of the special Coming up on the hor…”
Vijendran: Reusable rockets have cut launch costs nearly two orders of magnitude
“This generation of reusable launches has already brought costs down by almost a couple of orders of magnitude from where they were. With the space shuttle, for example”