| Is the astronautics expensive ? | |||
| Branch | Subject | Price [mil.USD] | Note |
| Different | train | 20 | |
| 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 under 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 | 1 000 | ||
| program Apollo | 25 000 | price in year 1972, as 160 000 mil.USD now | |
| program ISS till year 2020 | 100 000 | ||