Blue Origin rocket explosion: watch $150 million go boom

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Nuvendil said:

Salnax said:

We defunded NASA to give these idiots money.

And the SLS is entirely unsustainable, it costs 2.5 *billion* per launch.  New Glenn is between 50 and 100 million.  Falcon Heavy, ~100 million.  The development and deployment of these reusable heavy lift rockets is critical to the Artemis program's long term viability and the vitality of the nascent space industry.  SLS cannot be NASA's workhorse no matter their budget.

At that price the Falcon 9 would go out of business. A Falcon 9 already cost 74 Millions.

Starting price for the New Glenn was 70 Million, and that figure is 4 years old. I consider 75-80 Million more realistic right now, which would be right at the Falcon launch price. An expended New Glenn, which hasn't launched yet and isn't planned to happen anytime soon, apparently would cost 110 Millions, which is also the expected price of the 9x4 New Glenn (which, frankly, would need a new name imo).