>>1583144>Shuttle "cost per seat" is also somewhat misleading as the Shuttle wasn't a capsule design.I know. It was a retarded design.
>The Shuttle was also a payload launcher...Falcon Heavy has roughly the same payload capacity to Mars as the Space shuttle had to the ISS.
>...and also had a bunch of stuff like a robotic arm...Necessitated by the retarded design
>...airlock for EVA and a bunch of other stuff.Neat. I'm sure SpaceX would not be able to develop that capability if it was necessary (it isn't).
>The shuttle was basically like launching a small space station every mission, given the bizarre and unique capabilities of it.Yeah. It was so retarded that the Soviets was wondering what the Yanks were actually up to, and was working day and night trying to figure out how it could be a weapon capable enough to justify the cost of the program, until they finally accepted that, no, it was just a retarded design.
>Apollo is more comparable in terms of size and capacity...The Apollo program put people on the moon. The Space Shuttle never went higher than 650km. Apollo is more comparable to SpaceX than to the Shuttle.
