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captainhomer
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Why can't all the major countries just put their money together and build ONE spacecraft (a fleet maybe?) for them all to use? <br /><br />Bear with me here, I have no idea how much money is invloved here, so I'll just keep it simple.<br /><br />Ideal REALISTIC spacecraft with every technology that can possibly be installed in the best configuration (basically, think of a spacecraft being built with unlimited funding). Total cost: $100 billion.<br /><br />But depending on the number of contributing countries, the US would only have to pay $5-$10 billion or maybe even less. Just take that money out of the military budget for only one year and we're done.<br /><br />So instead of spending a full year's budget on something like the old school, space junk contributing CEV, the US would only have to pay a fraction of that for something much better. Thoughts?<br /><br />EDIT: My bad for saying more than I should have, but the technology isn't the point of this thread.