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Apr 11, 2011 · A final tally of the space shuttle program's lifetime costs puts the price tag at $1.5 billion per flight, a new analysis shows. The analysis reveals that, as of the end of 2010, the space...
- Most Memorable Space Shuttle Missions
The space shuttle Discovery added another notable launch to...
- A Tribute
NASA . Like a rising sun, space shuttle Discovery rockets...
- Most Memorable Space Shuttle Missions
- The Cost of Space Flight Before and After SpaceX
- The Space Race
- Space Tourism
- The Future of Space Flight
On December 21, 2021, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched a cargo capsule to deliver supplies and Christmas gifts to astronauts in the International Space Station. Just eight minutes after liftoff, the rocket’s first stage returned to Earth, landing on one of SpaceX’s drone ships in the Atlantic Ocean. This marked the company’s 100th successful landi...
The 20th-century was marked by competition between two Cold War adversaries, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States, to achieve superior spaceflight capability. The space race led to great technological advances, but these innovations came at a high cost. For instance, during the 1960s NASA spent $28 billion to land astronauts on the moon, a...
Although competition has brought prices down for cargo flights, human space transportation is still pricey. During the last 60 years, roughly 600 people have flown into space, and the vast majority of them have been government astronauts. For a suborbital trip on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo and Blue Origin’s New Shepard, seats typically cost $25...
In a SpaceX press briefing, SpaceX Director Benji Reed said, “We want to make life multi-planetary, and that means putting millions of people in space.” This may still seem like a stretch for most people. But, given the decreasing cost of space flights over the last two decades, perhaps the sky won’tbe the limit in the near future.
Jul 5, 2011 · Recent NASA estimates peg the shuttle program's cost through the end of last year at $209 billion (in 2010 dollars), yielding a per-flight cost of nearly $1.6 billion. And the orbiter fleet...
Jun 30, 2021 · They estimated that it would cost $5.15 billion (equivalent to $33 billion in 2021 dollars) to design, develop and build the Shuttle fleet and each launch would cost $7.7 million ($55 million in 2021 dollars).
The development of commercial launch systems has substantially reduced the cost of space launch. NASA’s space shuttle had a cost of about $1.5 billion to launch 27,500 kg to Low Earth Orbit (LEO), $54,500/kg. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 now advertises a cost of $62 million to launch 22,800 kg to LEO, $2,720/kg.
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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 per-seat...
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May 1, 2014 · Six hours and 14 minutes into Atlantis’ flight, the Magellan/Venus radar mapper and its attached inertial upper stage (IUS) was deployed into flight from the payload bay. After the IUS fired its first and second stages, Magellan was sent on its 15-month journey to Venus.
