Cost of space launches to low Earth orbit

An interactive visualization from Our World in Data.

Our World in Data
πŸ“† 2013 With small teams and far lower overhead, #SpaceX was able to go from incorporation to first #spaceflight in six years. #LaunchCost are projected to run 40 to 60 percent less πŸ“‰ than what’s being charged today https://hbr.org/2013/04/what-spacex-can-teach-us-about
What SpaceX Can Teach Us About Cost Innovation

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Harvard Business Review

@spaceflight Everybody is chalking this all up as private wins, public loses, but what it really boils down to is that Musk threw together and held a really good team, Bezos less so, and the folks at long-established Boeing and NASA are, on average, mediocre.

It is all about people chemistry, a random and difficult to control thing.