Originally Posted by
TURIN
Dorf, may I politely suggest you do some research on reusable spacecraft, in particular SpaceX Starship and the Blue Origin New Glenn.
Also, the cost of sending items to LEO. In particular the relative costs of traditional and wasteful launchers such as ULA or Ariane, then compare that to SpaceX Falcon 9, reusable boosters that can and have been used ten times.
Ok then, $5K/pound. My question remains, what do they do when they get there that robots can't do 10X more efficiently?