Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "How Private Firms are Launching the New Space Race | DW News" video.

  1. Definitely shady. Dylan Taylor isn't an Astronaut and he's NEVER been to orbit. He paid for a ride on Jeff Bezos sub-orbital Blue Origin NS-19 (its on Wikipedia). PLUS the space shuttle was expensive but it wasn't US$100,000 per kg to orbit. For most of its life the Space Shuttle was around US$40,000 but around the time of the final missions it was about UD$54,000. Plus SpaceX is NOT as low as $1,000/kg either. Falcon 9 is about US$2,700/kg and Falcon Heavy is about US$1,500 BUT those figures can also be misleading because it all depends on WHICH ORBIT they are sending the payload to as well as how much the payload actually weighs. The Space Shuttle cost around US$450 million per launch and that had nothing to do with how much it carried into orbit. If it flew with the full 30ton limit to Low Earth Orbit that's around US$15,000 per kg NOT US$100,000. But if the Space Shuttle had to go to the ISS which is at a higher altitude then at most it could take 16 tons at a cost of almost US$30,000 per kg. But then the US$450 million per flight is just the sort of accepted costs per flight. What he's doing is comparing the best cost for one company against the worst case of another company. The problem with idiotic media people NOT asking pertinent questions as happened here is that the viewing public end up MORE NOT LESS confused.
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