Jun 13, 2022
5 min read
SpaceX vs. NASA: Cost
SpaceX is 10X cheaper with 30X lower cost overrun than NASA in lifting payload into space. Why? Because SpaceX is platform-based, NASA not.
By Atif Ansar and Bent Flyvbjerg
“The space race is dominated by new contenders,” claims The Economist (18 October 2018).† Chief among them is SpaceX that has gone from…
