Peter on Nostr: > SpaceX spent less than $400m developing and building the entire Falcon 9 rocket, ...

> SpaceX spent less than $400m developing and building the entire Falcon 9 rocket, including its industry leading Merlin 1D engines and the reuse hardware that has seen this platform launch 140 times this year, with two months still to go. The entire rocket platform that single handedly upholds US interests in space, primarily privately funded and operated, for less than NASA gives their buddies at Aerojet to refurbish one engine that NASA already paid to develop and build decades ago.

This summarises the whole debacle for me.