{"id":11054,"date":"2014-05-09T15:29:31","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T22:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=11054"},"modified":"2014-05-09T15:29:31","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T22:29:31","slug":"the-realistic-cost-of-the-next-space-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/the-realistic-cost-of-the-next-space-race","title":{"rendered":"The Realistic Cost Of The Next Space Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Based on the Bloomberg TV program \u201cThe Next Space Race\u201d and other reliable sources, I determine the realistic payload costs goals for the next generation of private space companies.<\/p>\n<p>I review NASA\u2019s Space Shuttle Program costs and compare these with SpaceX costs, and then extrapolate to Planetary Resources, Inc.\u2018s cost structure.<\/p>\n<p>Three important conclusions are derived. And for those viewing this video at my blog postings, the link to the Excel Spreadsheet is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iseti.us\/Files\/TheCostOfTheNextSpaceRace.xlsx\">here<\/a> (.xlsx file).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Cost Of The Next Space Race\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kEc2rWrhNc8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on the Bloomberg TV program \u201cThe Next Space Race\u201d and other reliable sources, I determine the realistic payload costs goals for the next generation of private space companies. I review NASA\u2019s Space Shuttle Program costs and compare these with SpaceX costs, and then extrapolate to Planetary Resources, Inc.\u2018s cost structure. Three important conclusions are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,39,38,45,1524,1522,31,8,1514],"tags":[1580,734,1581,1582,457,1579],"class_list":["post-11054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-economics","category-engineering","category-finance","category-hardware","category-innovation","category-policy","category-space","category-space-travel","tag-bloomberg","tag-nasa","tag-payload-costs","tag-space-shuttle","tag-spacex","tag-the-next-space-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}