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Ken Calvert: “The launch cost went down by about half, and now pretty much…”

Featuring: Ken Calvert, Republican | U.S. House, California, District 41

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Hill & Valley Forum: Tom Mueller, Ken Calvert, Delian Asparouhov

Published | Video Starts at 24:40

So we gave him a couple of government launches. You remember those things? And we wanted to create competition for United Launch alliance. Well, guess what? The launch cost went down by about half, and now pretty much SpaceX is the monopoly. Now, we didn't intend it to be that way. We hope to have more competitors out there. So those of you, we like to see more entrance into the space launch business. (24:40–24:49)

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Asserts that launch costs decreased by about half and SpaceX now holds a monopoly.

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