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- Asking the International Space Station to justify its existence is a tall order. NASA estimates the station has cost U.S. taxpayers $50 billion since 1994 — and overall, its price tag has been pegged at $100 billion by all member nations.
www.space.com/9435-international-space-station-worth-100-billion.htmlIs the International Space Station Worth $100 Billion? | Space
Nov 1, 2010 · NASA estimates the station has cost U.S. taxpayers $50 billion since 1994 — and overall, its price tag has been pegged at $100 billion by all member nations.
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Nov 21, 2023 · NASA May Pay $1 Billion to Destroy the International Space Station. Here’s Why. The International Space Station—larger than a football field and weighing almost 450 tons—must eventually fall to...
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Nov 16, 2019 · NASA will likely pay about $90 million for each astronaut who flies aboard Boeing's CST-100 Starliner capsule on International Space Station (ISS) missions, the report estimated. The...
Nov 15, 2019 · On top of Boeing’s already higher contract amount, NASA agreed to pay the company nearly $300 million extra, a new audit by the space agency’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has...
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In 2006, NASA signed the first in a long series of contractsfor companies to develop crew and cargo vehicles, with the promise that billions of dollars more awaited in future contract to send astronauts on those spacecraft to the ISS. The agency's financial contributions are fixed and paid only upon completion of verifiable milestones. Any cost ove...
In2008, the agency signed contracts with SpaceX and Orbital SciencesCorporation — now Northrop Grumman—to build and fly their own cargovehicles to the ISS. The plan worked: not even a year after the shuttle program ended, SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft made the first commercial berthing with the ISS. Orbital followed suit with its Cygnus spacecraft a y...
In2014, NASA's commercial crew program selected SpaceX and Boeing toferry astronauts to the ISS. Having two companies increased competition,which helped to keep costs low and provided redundancy, increasing thelikelihood that NASA would have access to the ISS in case one of thevehicles was grounded. Though NASA's original goal was forcommercial veh...
Sep 1, 2022 · Since we now know how many flights each company will be providing NASA through the lifetime of the International Space Station, and the full cost of those contracts, we can break down the price...
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Sep 19, 2014 · In total, it calculated that the United States spent approximately $75 billion on the ISS through 2013: $43.7 billion for construction and program costs plus $30.7 billion for 37 shuttle launches. Another difficulty in calculating sunk costs, however, is when to begin counting the dollars spent.
