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« on: 16/05/2021 20:54:56 »
Historical data seems to be available.
25.4 Billion US dollars (in 1973) for the entire Apollo space project seems to be a figure I found on the internet.
I expect you can find a breakdown to give a per-mission cost if you try and Wikipedia seems to have already scaled up the money to 2020 equivalents.
Since most of the research and pioneering work has already been done, future projects would probably be cheaper. It all depends, do you want to design and build a new rocket or just use existing designs and hire an existing launch platform for a weekend?
Alternatively, Virgin Galactic were reportedly selling tickets at the bargain price of $ 250 000 for early customers (but have now raised their price). That's just a trip into space, travel all the way to the moon would probably cost a bit more and I don't know of any planned commercial routes for that. It's probably like the local bus service, there won't be anyone going to the moon for the next 20 years and then 3 shuttle services will all turn up at once.
Here's another PopSci article about it:
https://astronomy.com/news/2020/08/six-ways-to-buy-a-ticket-to-space-in-2021
25.4 Billion US dollars (in 1973) for the entire Apollo space project seems to be a figure I found on the internet.
I expect you can find a breakdown to give a per-mission cost if you try and Wikipedia seems to have already scaled up the money to 2020 equivalents.
Since most of the research and pioneering work has already been done, future projects would probably be cheaper. It all depends, do you want to design and build a new rocket or just use existing designs and hire an existing launch platform for a weekend?
Alternatively, Virgin Galactic were reportedly selling tickets at the bargain price of $ 250 000 for early customers (but have now raised their price). That's just a trip into space, travel all the way to the moon would probably cost a bit more and I don't know of any planned commercial routes for that. It's probably like the local bus service, there won't be anyone going to the moon for the next 20 years and then 3 shuttle services will all turn up at once.
Here's another PopSci article about it:
https://astronomy.com/news/2020/08/six-ways-to-buy-a-ticket-to-space-in-2021
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