Next Big Future: Google's Technology Moonshots and the Costs of the Apollo Moonshot and Spacex rocket development

This is some very revealing data. Doing R&D in government programs is way worse than in private ones, but that’s not surprising in itself. It is surprising that government is no longer the sole source of R&D money in those magnitudes.

http://nextbigfuture.com/2015/08/googles-technology-moonshots-and-costs.html?m=1