what was its total cost?
The overall NASA budget of the Space Shuttle program has been estimated to be $221 billion (in 2012 dollars).
Space Shuttle
The overall NASA budget of the Space Shuttle program has been estimated to be $221 billion (in 2012 dollars).
where does the us launch space shuttles from Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. what are these shuttles actually? It was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program. when does its crew comprised of? The Space Shuttle crew varied by mission. The test flights only had two members each, the commander and pilot. The on-orbit operations were conducted primarily by the mission specialists. did it ever face any disaster? On January 28, 1986, STS-51-L disintegrated 73 seconds after launch, due to the failure of the right SRB, killing all seven astronauts on board "Challenger". the shuttle program you mentioned above; what is it about? UNANSWERABLE
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Space Shuttle [SEP] Budget
In 2009, NASA determined that the cost of adding a single launch per year was $252 million (in 2012), which indicated that much of the Space Shuttle program costs are for year-round personnel and operations that continued regardless of the launch rate. Accounting for the entire Space Shuttle program budget, the per-launch cost was $1.642 billion (in 2012).