A: Plutonium is, in fact, a metal very like uranium. If you hold it [in] your hand (and I've held tons of it my hand, a pound or two at a time), it'sheavy, like lead. It's toxic, like lead or arsenic, but not much more so. Going Nuclear Episode 7 - Plutonium Production...
By coincidence, when a translation is made to dollars per pound using 2024$, this corresponds quite closely to the current price line on Figure 6. Indeed, prices do sometimes bounce high. The problem is getting them to stay as high as the dotted line for long enough to support the multi-...
Standing on the same Launch Pad as Apollo, was a new generation of Rocket, the HeavyFalcon 9built and operated by a private company – SpaceX. Sitting on top was a manned vehicle “Dragon 2”, flown by two ex-Shuttle pilots, Bob and Doug.. ...
That works out to be almost $14,000 per pound. A heavy launch vehicle, on the other hand, costs more to launch but also provides a greater lifting force. For example, the Ariane 5G rocket can lift 39,648 pounds (18,000 kilograms) into low-Earth orbit at a cost of $165 million. ...