With the price of helium fluctuating amid shortages, filling the Pathfinder 1 could cost between $250,000 (£197,877) and $1 million (£791,500).
They could easily cut the cost of flying this thing by mixing hydrogen with the helium to the point of keeping the mix below the flammability limit.
That would be below 4% but 3% of $1 million dollars is a lot of money (to me).
On another note the shortage of helium is Biden’s fault.
The only source of helium on Earth is natural gas wells.
Once again the Democrat war on carbon fuels is harming the economy.
There was a helium shortage not long ago.
Now what.