Elon Musk - Cost Quotes

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Falcon One is going to be the lowest cost per flight to orbit of any production rocket.

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Which means we're cheaper than the Chinese, cheaper than [the] Russians or anywhere else – and we're doing it in the United States with American labour costs.

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We could figure out ways with small aerospace companies to do a low-cost spacecraft and lander. But we could not find a way to do a low-cost launcher, unless we went to the Russians.

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I think the reason it's cheaper is, first of all, we are a private entity and we have a very lean system in here. What we have been able to do here at SpaceX is to cherry-pick, you know, the top one or two percent and give them, you know, capital to execute well and a clear mission, which is low cost, reliable access to space, and no other constraints.

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Tuition costs are outrageous. Fortunately, they gave me a scholarship…so I only had to cover living expenses, books, etc., by working.

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We are used to things improving every year; we are used to having a better cell phone next year than this year; a better lap top. We are even used to some basic things, like we expect more from your car in next year's model than last year's model. But this is not the case in space; reliability and cost - those are the fundamental parameters of transportation - have not improved.

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