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Tom Brosz — (archived)

One thing that few people are aware of is that most of us in the private space industry who come up with low-cost solutions still fully intend to charge whatever price we can get and still beat the competition. Naturally, as competition steps up, this price will drop dramatically.

I don't have access to SpaceX's true cost figures, but given their plans to recover the Falcon V first stage, and a few other issues, I can guarantee you that their launch costs are a hell of a lot less than what they're charging. Sure, they have to recover development costs for a while, and other things, but there is a lot of room on the downward side for costs.

In other words, it isn't going to be $12 million a flight forever.

And the Gemini is built like a brick privy.

Our work on the Alternate Access project can be found here. This design can easily carry four people, or six in a pinch. Plug that into your equations.

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