SpaceX/Musk has brought the cost of space flight down significantly. yes, he has. But it’s still way beyond the cost of normal everyday businesses and certainly individuals unless you happen to be a billionaire.
We will never see space travel in our lifetimes become as affordable as is portrayed in “2001 A Space Odyssey” and many other sci-fi novels and movies.
When you consider what it costs to launch even a small package to low earth orbit, it is expensive, but relative to what it used to cost it has come down considerably.....
Let’s say it costs X to send a SpaceX rocket and payload satelite 25,000 miles and 100x to send 2 men and a payload to the moon 235,855 miles.
So how much would it cost for a Boeing 747 (or pick your vehicle) to take that payload 25,000 miles from US to India to England and back to the US for 25,000 miles?
How much for a Boeing 747 to take 2 men and a lunar payload 235,855 miles around the earth hundreds of times?