KIDS QUIZ
SPACE EXPLORATION
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$100s of dollars
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$1000s of dollars
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Millions of dollars
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Very cheap on Amazon
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Detailed explanation-1: -NASA’s $228m Spacesuits Are Kinda Fire.
Detailed explanation-2: -It all boils down to economies of scale. All the design and testing and manufacturing setup costs for the NASA spacesuit are distributed over only a very few spacesuits. They aren’t paying for the making of the suit, they’re paying for all the development costs spread over perhaps 10–20 suits.
Detailed explanation-3: -Narrator: This spacesuit, built in 1974, was reported to cost between $15 million and $22 million. Today, that would be about $150 million. Having not delivered any new mission-ready extravehicular suits since then, NASA is running out of spacesuits. In fact, NASA are down to just four flight-ready EVA suits.
Detailed explanation-4: -How sophisticated and complex this suit is can be gauged from the fact that each costs upwards of $ 12 million (Rs 60 crore). That is why it is no longer custom-fitted as per the measurements of the person selected to go on a space mission.