Republic World By Harsh Vardhan 7/28/2022
Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft offers flights more economically advantageous than US space companies such as SpaceX and Boeing, a Roscosmos research arm claimed.
Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft offers significantly cheaper flights than the US’ private launch providers SpaceX and Boeing, claimed Agat, an economic and scientific research institute of Russian space agency Roscosmos. Currently, SpaceX, owned by Elon Musk, and Boeing Space are two major US companies in line to provide launch services. The comparison was made with the Orel spacecraft in mind, which is a project being developed by Roscosmos.
"Already today, the transport system on the basis of Russia’s Soyuz MS manned spaceship is more economically advantageous and the price for astronauts or space tourists depends on extra services and the market situation", Agat said in a report, as per TASS news agency.
Moreover, the organisation cited NASA's estimate which suggests that one launch in SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft costs around $210 million whereas Boeing's Starliner launch costs around $345 million. While both companies have won NASA contracts to transport cargo and crew to the International Space Station (ISS), SpaceX is the only company that has a license to launch astronauts. While Agat did not reveal the exact mission costs on a Russian spacecraft, it earlier claimed that missions to the Moon would be four times lower than that in an American spacecraft.
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