Falcon Heavy can put 64 tonnes in LEO. For 100 mill.
What most people fell to appreciate is that the Falcon 9 Heavy, with its kerolox upper stage, has low performance beyond LEO. nothing beats LH2 there.
Instead of 3 Orions, why not have another ICPS for boost operations?
Falcon Heavy can put 64 tonnes in LEO. For 100 mill. Surely NASA should drop the SLS and just work out a way to send the DSH , Orion etc up on top the falcon heavy, just think of the extra exploration missions they could run with the money they saved. SLS is dead in the water, 40 year old technology with a huge price tag.Many of the NASA exploration parts could be put into space with falcon heavy recovery of the first stages. That should make it cheaper again.
The 100 million price is not for the full performance of the Falcon Heavy. Last time I checked, $90 million is for up to 8 mT(could be dated) to GTO while the full performance was ~3x that. Common misconception on the internet.
NASA tends to pay a lot more than the published prices regardless.