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struggle4progress

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2. It won't happen: it's expensive as hell, and there's no real commercial payback

Reply to bananas (Original post)

Fri Nov 16, 2012, 05:47 PM

Nov 2012

Plus, it's really not that easy to get all the details right

If the Apollo program cost $24 billion, adjusting for inflation will take the cost to about $150 in current dollars. And if you think you just get to go there for the price of one Apollo trip, you're wrong -- because there's a lot of stuff you gotta get correct, and the only way to get it correct is by lots and lots of trials

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Private Moon Landing in the works: "Golden Spike" [View all] bananas Nov 2012 OP

I cannot see how they plan to make money doing this. louis-t Nov 2012 #1

It won't happen: it's expensive as hell, and there's no real commercial payback struggle4progress Nov 2012 #2

Millionaire masturbation. Scuba Nov 2012 #3

Paragon Space Development is also involved w/ Golden Spike commercial lunar company bananas Nov 2012 #4

NASA would probably be their largest customer, along with other national space agencies. LongTomH Nov 2012 #5