Apollo 13 budget: ~ $2.8B in 2023 usd
Boeing 737 MAX total program budget (excluding older 737 models): > $180B
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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.
Yeah its too fair to boing because they are not sending shit tp fucking space
Hahahaha! Well nailed!
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.
Wasn't it exactly the same as most of the other apollo craft?
Because this is Lemmy
Not to mention Apollo program invented a lot of new stuff never before seen, let alone used.
That explains how Boeing could afford 22 characters while NASA had to make do with 3.
Of note is that if this is the command module, it was built by Rockwell, parts of which eventually become Boeing. So the stickies track.
Love the printed labels on the Apollo capsule.