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It gets really interesting when you can put 5 people in orbit for under $80M (that is $16M apiece), Add a Bigelow module that they can spend a week in, and land back on land? I'm not sure where things are going, but it is the first time that I felt I could "see" non-NASA people going into space on a regular basis as an actual possibility. If you're re-using the boosters it could be cheaper still.

Now we need to figure out when an Amazon rocket with a BE-4 will launch (it needs a couple of BE-4s to get enough delta V to insert stuff into low earth orbit)

Perhaps space is the "next big thing" that everyone was wondering about?



> Perhaps space is the "next big thing" that everyone was wondering about?

When we will be able to generate value by being in space. Asteroid mining, for example, would make space travel expand a lot.


The Falcon Heavy specs & pricing is fascinating. 12-13 tons to Mars for $85M? I wonder if we could see a human team on Mars within the decade.


If you expand your time horizon enough, then yes, space is the next big thing.




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