Pardon my question, but where is the money spent ? beside researcher&#x27;s salaries ? What makes the cost so astronomical ? chemicals ? or maybe a virtually inflated cost from companies selling things at premium because they can making every lab setup a sink ? isn&#x27;t there a way to improve the system by changing the views or the way work is done ?<p>I&#x27;m thinking about SpaceX, they started from scratch and IIRC they cut the costs by 10 (not even counting the reusable rocket game)