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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2739015, member: 76194&quot;]The sad thing is that SpaceX might be sending men around the moon for $90 million Dollars total, in 2019, while NASA is planning to do the same around the year 2022 for an eye watering&nbsp; $1.5 Billion Dollars, as Congress won&#039;t fund NASA unless they use inneficient rockets and methods (due to political self-interest from Senators looking to benefit their own states with pork spending).</p><p><br /></p><p>The era of government doing these things is coming to an end. Private Enterprise does it much cheaper. I remember when NASA was relying on Boeing exclusively for their rockets to launch satellites into space, it cost $600 Million per launch because political self-interest from Senators requiring rocket parts to be built in multiple states and shipped to Florida (very inefficient and expensive.)</p><p><br /></p><p>SpaceX are doing the same missions today for only $45 million dollars, and Blue Origin will soon be doing it too for around the same price.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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