Re: How can Boeing and LockMart compete with SpaceX?
- From: "Alan Erskine" <alan.erskine@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:07:14 GMT
"Brian Thorn" <bthorn64@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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NASA was quoted well over $400 million for a Delta IV-H. (So much for
cost savings versus Titan IV...)
That was before or after the DIV-H was taken off the commercial market?
http://www.spacex.com/falcon9_heavy.php also quotes a price for "TLI
missions" - why do I get the feeling that Elon Musk want's to be the 13th
person on the Moon... The F9H would get a 3-3.5 tonne payload onto the
surface.
He has to make a rocket that works first. Any rocket. Just get one
into orbit, and no song-and-dance about how *almost* working is cause
for celebration.
True; but the systems are in place. Remember that Apollo 8 went to the Moon
instead of being just another LEO test after Von Braun said "there's very
little difference between Lunar orbit and Earth orbit". Once the systems
have been checked out, there's very little difference. Falcon 1s first stage
uses the same engine as the Falcon 9/F9H.
"Mr Hughes, this will fly".
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