Reddit reviews Adult Male Gorilla Costume
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STD (Fits Chest up to 44", Waist up to 36")Includes fur bodysuit w/ attached chest piece, mask, gorilla hands and feetFor international shipping on this item, specify Expedited International at checkout
Most gorilla costumes I could find mass about two kilograms.
If it had been lifted as part of two astronauts' combined personal weight allowance, It would have cost $646,000.
Assuming the contract rate of $210 million for a full crew (Which is several times as much as it costs Roscosmos) and launch mass capacity of 650 kg (7800 kg Soyuz FG/Fregat max launch mass - 7150 kg Soyuz TMA-M capsule mass)
2.1x10^8 / 6.5x10^2 = 3.23x10^5
323000 x 2 = $646,000
It's much more likely it was delivered as part of a crew care package in a cargo mission, in which case it could have been as cheap as $34,000.
SpaceX lists a per-launch cost of $57 million to put a net 3310kg of cargo to the ISS.
5.7x10^7 / 3.31x10^3 = 1.7x10^4
17000 x 2 = $34,000
TL;DR: Nice try Elon, but you're no FedEx.
It costs $43180/lb to bring things to the ISS with the Cygnus spacecraft. This gorilla suit weighs 4.3 pounds, so since this is Chris Hadfield, it cost the Canadian Space Agency approximately $186,000 to make this happen.
Weight going into space is money. The cost to get a pound of anything into space ranges from 2200 to 13,000 based on 2013 numbers and what rocket is used.
Going by this gorilla suit
https://www.amazon.com/California-Costumes-Adult-Gorilla-Costume/dp/B00272LJHC
Shipping weight is 4.3 pounds. Add the box/bag thing which looks to be less than a pound we will go with 4.5lbs. So $9900 - $58,500.
So per person $.000031 (Falcon Heavy) to $.000183 (Atlas V)
Cost for the Soyuz to bring this to ISS - $53145.72
Per US citizen - $0.000166
Can't tell if serious or not.
I could replicate this entire costume for about $150. There's no problem with that, but I think that's hilarious.
Didn't realize the history of the character and that was cool to read up on. I also didn't realize the state of Phoenix basketball was so dire people people had to rally around the mascot rather than the team.
Doing a quick search, the shipping weight of a gorilla suit on Amazon.com is 4.3 pounds, but for the ease of calculations, let's round up to 4.4 pounds (2 kilograms). The next US based rocket to go to the ISS is the Orbital ATK's Cygnus cargo delivery on October 9th, 2016, which uses the Antares rocket to delivery cargo. The cost per kilogram for the Antares rocket is $95,000 USD.
The bottom line is that it cost $190k USD to get that gorilla suit into space.
How long before we can get a space elevator?
so according to http://www.techinsider.io/spacex-rocket-cargo-price-by-weight-2016-6, it cost about $10,000 to send up 1 pound of stuff to space.
https://www.amazon.com/California-Costumes-Adult-Gorilla-Costume/dp/B00272LJHC has a gorilla outfit. The shipping weight is 4.3 pounds. Let's just assume more than half of that is the box and other shipping stuff.
Leaving 2 pounds left, to make this one video and to send up a gorilla outfit cost about $20,000
That's one expensive gorilla suit. Using some estimations on costs to lift mass to low earth orbit:
http://space.stackexchange.com/questions/1989/what-is-the-current-cost-per-pound-to-send-something-into-leo
($2.2k - $13.2k), and using the shipping weight of a sample gorilla suit on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/California-Costumes-Adult-Gorilla-Costume/dp/B00272LJHC
(4.3 lbs) it cost somewhere around $9.5k-$56.8k to put that suit on the space station.
Is this the best way to be spending our tax dollars?