In the almost as bad as SLS department...
...the MPCV, which has already absorbed an incredible $7 billion through 2012, while foregoing the rather important necessity of developing a service module, is set to receive a steady allotment of roughly $1 billion per year, virtually for the foreseeable future.What did it take to make a Dragon?
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Dragon development cost... I have no idea, but I do know this; the development cost of all SpaceX projects, including of course the launch vehicles and engines, plus Dragon, is a lot less than Orion has spent so far.
And Dragon has flown. Repeatedly.
I'm not surprised that there's a movement to hit SpaceX; Falcon Heavy makes SLS look atrocious, especially once the performance issues related to the SLS main engines surface. I think we;ll find the SLS payload (Block 1 and Block 2 as well) estimates were rather optimistic.
My guess; by the time of the second SLS launch over a decade from now, SpaceX will already be flying something using Raptor methane engines, and that something (MCT?)will have a bigger payload than FH, or for that matter, SLS block one or two. (The current FH is pretty close to SLS block 1).
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