1 Trillion over 50 years of its life, and each plane costs less than its inferior counterparts
50 years after the Apollo program, NASA will have a rocket that costs twice as much per launch as a Saturn V...
Parker Reed
Luis Morgan
>Only with development costs included
With development costs included SLS approaches $5 billion per launch
>F1 development started in the 50s
January 10th, 1962
>SLS development started in 2011
And it won't be functional until well into the 2020s
>SLS to LEO: 105.2 mT
70 mT
Kevin Watson
>With development costs included SLS approaches $5 billion per launch
With development costs included, Saturn V is $3.8 billion per launch and SLS is infinity per launch. SLS has cost $19 billion so far to develop, but Saturn V cost $50 billion.
>F1 development started in the 50s
January 10th, 1962
"The F-1 was originally developed by Rocketdyne to meet a 1955 U.S. Air Force requirement for a very large rocket engine."
"Test firings of F-1 components had been performed as early as 1957."
>SLS development started in 2011
First launch is 2019
>70 mT
For the version that will only fly once for a test flight (that won't even be going to LEO anyways)
Might as well cite Falcon 9's payload at 5 tons to LEO by your logic
Cameron Cook
>the first launch counts for time but not payload and F-1 development counts toward the Saturn V but Constellation development doesn't count towards the SLS
I wonder how many goalposts you can carry to TLI on your meme rocket :^)
Logan Perez
inflation
do you even capitalism ?
Ryan Price
>inflation
Buddy if you didn't account for inflation, the Saturn V would be 1/10th of the cost instead of 1/2
Ethan Clark
Practically nothing was developed under Constellation.
Evan Taylor
When you talk about 50 years are you talking about when the last of the 2,500 F-35 ordered were delivered?
>American spends 22 trillion dollars to feed, clothe and house niggers
What? USA estimated GDP for this year is only 17 trillion, how can they expend more than the whole country produces?
Jeremiah Hill
Since 1964
Mason Hill
50 years meaning the entire operational life of the aircraft line, including development and procurement