In November 2005, it was announced that, as part of the 250th anniversary celebration of Mozart's birthday, a new film version of The Magic Flute, set during World War I, was to be made, directed by Kenneth Branagh, with a translation by Stephen Fry.
View full size image. The giant rocket NASA is building to carry astronauts to Mars and other destinations in deep space may cost $500 million per launch when it's flying regularly, space agency officials said Tuesday (Sept.he shuttle program cost about $209 billion (in 2010 dollars) over its lifetime and made a total of 135 flights, yielding an average cost per launch of more than $1.5 billion. Two or three flights per year. In its initial incarnation, the SLS will be capable of lifting 70 metric tons of payload.
That brings the average shuttle launch cost to about $1.5 billion, according to Pielke and Byerly, writing in the international weekly journal of science Nature. The researchers said each shuttle launch cost about $1.2 billion from the time Columbia launched and 2010. But when factoring in the lifetime costs of the shuttle program dating back to the early 1970s the average shuttle launch cost rose to about $1.5 billion per flight. The shuttles cost in the billions of dollars.