| Is the astronautics expensive ? | |||
| Branch | Subject | Price [mil.USD] | Note |
| Different | train | 20 | |
| ton of gold | 40 | ||
| big plane Boeing, Airbus | 200 | ||
| football stadium | 500 | 80 000 viewers | |
| car company | 1 000 | production 300 000 small cars per year | |
| ship Oasis of the Seas | 1 400 | year 2009, 7000 persons, Harmony of the Seas, Queen Mary 2 | |
| container carrier Marco Polo | 2 000 | year 2012, 16000 containers | |
| skyscraper | 3 000 | Burj Khalifa 830m, Shanghai Tower 632m, Abraj Al-Bait 601m | |
| nuclear power plant | 3 000 | power 2 Gwatt | |
| solar power plant | 13 000 | power 5 Gwatt near Dubai in year 2020 | |
| physics laboratory CERN | 4 500 | year 2008, particle accelerator | |
| dam Three Gorges | 30 000 | year 2009, power 22 Gwatt | |
| port | 300 000 | Ching-tao, Shanghai, Singapur, Hongkong | |
| Transport | 100 km railroad | 1 000 | |
| 100 km motorway | 1 000 | ||
| 100 km underground | 3 000 | ||
| tunnel Gotthard | 10 000 | year 2017, lenght 50 km | |
| bridge Hongkong-Macao | 10 000 | year 2018, lenght 50 km, 12 traffic lanes | |
| tunnel La Manche | 14 000 | year 1994, lenght 50 km | |
| Kansai Airport | 20 000 | year 1994, artificial island 4 km | |
| pipeline Nord stream | 20 000 | year 2011, 2 000 km | |
| Army | fighter F16, Su-27 | 40 | 4 000 fighters F16 |
| fighter F15, Eurofighter, Rafale, F35 | 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 | |
| aircraft carrier class Ford | 20 000 | 1 aircraft carriers class Ford, 80 fighters | |
| 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 | ||