re soyuz and shuttle comparisons in article may ke zv uucp gary ke zv uucp gary coffman writes as a rough guess i would say that in years shuttle has delivered to leo about as much as saturn v did in years we have to be careful to define what is payload and what is propulsion and spacecraft structure often shuttle lifts satellites with upper stages yet we still consider it payload ten saturn flights over about years delivered to leo roughly the same as shuttle flights over years of course saturn lifted more than shuttle but it s cost to orbit in same year dollars was higher they where pretty much the same in terms of cost pound a resurected saturn would cost only per pound if development costs are ignored which is five times cheaper than shuttle allen lady astor sir if you were my husband i would poison your coffee w churchill madam if you were my wife i would drink it days to first flight of dcx
