Charlie Stross on Nostr: I notice that the Odysseus commercial lander a US company just plonked on the Moon ...

I notice that the Odysseus commercial lander a US company just plonked on the Moon cost NASA a little over $100M.

By way of comparison, the Indian government's Chandrayaan-3 mission, the lander of which touched down in 2023, cost roughly $90M.

So private space can be more expensive than 100% government agency-run missions.