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Comment by coryrc | original | SpaceX catches the Starship to end Flight 15
[−]coryrc · 2026-11-15 Sun 02:05 UTC · link
One cost, what, 30% of all government spending over several years?

The other's total was less than just the Senate Launch System.

[−]rootusrootus · 2026-11-15 Sun 02:42 UTC · link
One was 60+ years ago, the other is built with knowledge learned from building the first.
[−]ambicapter · 2026-11-15 Sun 02:43 UTC · link
> 30% of all government spending

In your fucking dreams. NASA’s entire budget has never been more than 4 or 5% gov spending a year.

[−]PeterHolzwarth · 2026-11-15 Sun 02:58 UTC · link
I appreciate your point and correction to who you are responding to, but that's not a very HN way of expressing it. You can do better.
[−]coryrc · 2026-11-15 Sun 16:55 UTC · link
You're right, I remembered wrong. Hence I left it a question mark. It was 4% during the moon race.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA

Many people don't know it hasn't been more than ~1% of the budget since 1975 (which I did remember, I just thought the peak was higher).