That's not what I'm saying. We are comparing 1 billion per operational Saturn V flight to...what? There are no operational Starship flights to compare with. What sense is there in comparing the cost of manned flights to the moon and back with unmanned suborbital test flights?

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boxed 4 days ago | parent [-]

Saturn V did have at least one suborbital mission with Spacelab though. So not as hard to compare as you say.

	▲	dragonwriter 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Spacelab was carried on Shuttle flights, Skylab was launched on a modified Saturn V. And it was low orbit, not suborbital.