Is the astronautics expensive ?    
       
Branch Subject Price [mil.USD] Note
Different train 20  
  metric ton of gold 40  
  big plane Boeing, Airbus 200  
  car company 1 000 production 300 000 small cars per year
  ship Queen Mary 2 1 000 year 2004, 4000 persons
  ship Oasis of the Seas 1 400 year 2009, 7000 persons
  skyscraper 2 000 Taiwan Taipei 510 m, Freedom Tower 540 m, Burj Dubaj 830 m
  nuclear power plant 3 000 power 2 Gwatt
  physics laboratory CERN 4 500 year 2008, particle accelerator
  dam Three Gorges 25 000 year 2009, power 18 Gwatt
       
Transport 100 km railroad 1 000  
  100 km motorway 1 000  
  100 km underground 3 000  
  tunnel Gotthard 10 000 year 2017, lenght 57 km
  tunnel La Manche 14 000 year 1994, lenght 50 km
  Kansai Airport 15 000 year 1994, artificial island
       
Army fighter F16, Su-27, Gripen 40 4 000 fighters F16
  fighter F15, Eurofighter, Rafale 80  
  bomber B2 1 300 22 bombers B2
  submarine Typhoon 4 000 6 submarines Typhoon, 20 launchers
  aircraft carrier class Nimitz 10 000 9 aircraft carriers class Nimitz,  80 fighters
  development of fighter F35 40 000 year 2010
       
Space big launcher 100  
  big space probe 500  
  program Apollo 25 000 price in year 1972,  as 160 000 mil.USD now
  program ISS till year 2020 100 000