How Much NASA Is Paying Per Seat on SpaceX's Crew Dragon & Boeing's Starliner

[Huxter]

https://www.space.com/spacex-boeing...pacex-boeing-commercial-crew-seat-prices.html

"Boeing also defended its higher CCtCap award, noting that the company had to develop Starliner "from scratch" whereas SpaceX based Crew Dragon off the robotic Dragon cargo capsule, which has been flying contracted resupply missions to the ISS for NASA since 2012."


"NASA will likely pay about $90 million for each astronaut who flies aboard Boeing's CST-100 Starliner capsule on International Space Station (ISS) missions, the report estimated. The per-seat cost for SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule, meanwhile, will be around $55 million, according to the OIG's calculations."

$35 million less and Crew Dragon looks so much SEXIER too! Extra trunk room, down mass... Good luck SpaceX

 

[OverTheTop]

Interesting pricing there. I thought the idea was to develop the commercial crew capability to save the cost of purchasing seats on the Soyuz at high prices? They were $85million each last time, IIRC. That seems to indicate no saving there on the Boeing side. The only advantages are domestic supply and the availability of a second provider.

Of course, SpaceX didn't have to develop the Dragon capsule from scratch, did they? Oh wait, they did!

Go SpaceX .

 

[crossfire]

My vote is for the Dragon. Boeing likes to spend a lot of money. They need to make up money from the 737 mess.

 

[boatgeek]

Of course, that's the price for the first round of flights. There will be more bids down the road, and hopefully NASA will be able to award more flights to the more cost-effective partner. That should bring the prices closer together, although SpaceX will still have an advantage with reusable boosters.

And the Dragon capsule does look way better than the Starliner. Has a way better logo, too.

 

[OverTheTop]

They need to make up money from the 737 mess.

I think the figure I heard was they were losing about $1.3billion per month on that.

 

[Mushtang]

https://www.space.com/spacex-boeing...pacex-boeing-commercial-crew-seat-prices.html

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