Miles O’Brien:
Meanwhile, the brand-new, much cheaper rockets keep emerging and launching from SpaceX at a much faster rate. The company has its own moon and Mars ambitions, with its heavy lift rocket called Starship. It has slated an orbital test flight in September.
The stainless steel, Buck Rogers-style vehicle will be fully reusable. Except for the Orion capsule, NASA's new rocket is a completely expendable single-use system. NASA's inspector general estimates the Artemis campaign will cost $93 billion between 2012 and 2025, $4.1 billion for a single launch.
Elon Musk claims the price tag for a Starship launch will be less than $10 million.
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