VicenteOlisipo t1_jdkkm99 wrote on March 25, 2023 at 1:44 AM

Reply to comment by sithelephant in Advisory group backs European human spaceflight program using commercial approaches by Zhukov-74

Ok, but that's theoretical math. In reality that effeciency actually needs even more money to be developed. Unless we just outsource it to the Americans.

sithelephant t1_jdl2dkh wrote on March 25, 2023 at 4:19 AM

Yes, but also no.

There is technological or process advancement savings for which this argumemnt might be made.

And then there is savings from not doing things in a knowingly financially inefficient but politically expedient manner.