To write a rhyming poem, brainstorm words from a particular word family and build your poem around these. You can find examples of words in the most common word families here. For example, for summer poems you might use the word family -un (sun, fun, run, bun) or -ot (hot, spot, forgot, plot).
Report Abuse. Estimates I have heard say that is costs $10,000US per pound of weight just to get the craft into orbit. If you consider that the average astronaut weighs in at 150 pounds, and you can have up to 7 people riding that comes out to $10,500,000 in just weight of passengers.The launch vehicle (shuttle, external tank, solid rocket boosters, plus payloads) can weigh hundreds of thousands of pounds...ouch, that's a lot of money.f you consider that the average astronaut weighs in at 150 pounds, and you can have up to 7 people riding that comes out to $10,500,000 in just weight of passengers. The launch vehicle (shuttle, external tank, solid rocket boosters, plus payloads) can weigh hundreds of thousands of pounds...ouch, that's a lot of money.
1 One space shuttle launch costs $450 million. 2  The German V2 was the first rocket to reach space in 1942.  In 1947, fruit flies were launched into space. Scientists wanted to see how they reacted to space travel. Later, in 1949, Albert II, a Rhesus monkey went to space. In 1957, the Russian space dog, Laika, orbited the Earth. Scientists wanted to make sure space travel was safe for humans. Sending animals first gave them valuable information about how bodies react to being in space.