• Hildegarde@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Why are you comparing the budget of one single spacecraft with an entire production run of a model of airplane? That’s not a reasonable comparison.

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      8 months ago

      Because Boeing should have economy of scale benefits by selling $180B worth of aircraft, while Apollo 13 was a bespoke, single-use, cutting-edge spacecraft on a much smaller budget.

      • BakerBagel@midwest.social
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        8 months ago

        Modern airplanes are also have crazy complicated systems compared to the Apollo program.

        But also the MAX eas supotti be a quick and easy upgrade to the existing 737-800, so clearly theu fucked up along the way