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Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl
Prototypes in GURPS are not necessarily 100x cost, the vast majority of that premium comes from R&D costs, not production costs. Heck, prototypes are at cost until you get a production line going, and then they are somewhat more reasonable. Anyway, I do not think that the Saturn V rockets were 100x cost, though they only made 13 of them, so they did not recoup all of the R&D costs.
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Hard to say, but the rocket motors were being hand-built still.