Spaceflight 🚀#Space #launch #cost comparison by ourworldindata.org : https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cost-space-launches-low-earth-orbit?time=1982..latest
📆 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 📉 than what’s being charged today https://hbr.org/2013/04/what-spacex-can-teach-us-about
Khleedril@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.