[danw1979]

It works perfectly well when you’ve got deep pockets and unmanned test vehicles though.

[panick21]

False. SpaceX development of Starship is much cheaper then SLS despite using more test vehicles. The claim that building hardware rich is more expensive is not really shown in the data.

NASA has done some analysis on early SpaceX and shown that their methods produced a 10x improvement in cost. And that was with the method NASA uses that often turn out to be wrong.

[nixpulvis]

Those deep pockets are funded by the same pot we all feed from.

[testing22321]

And everyone should be happy that pot is TEN TIMES smaller than the pot holders draining the pot with the same goal.