Space Shuttle To Cost $317M More
The repeated launch delays for the space shuttle Endeavour werenot just frustrating, but expensive. NASA estimates every launch cancelled after fuel tanking hasbegun can cost as much as $1.2 million dollars. Endeavour enduredfive liftoff scrubs before successfully launching Wednesday at 6:03 p.m.(...
In its nearly 30-year history, the space shuttle program has seen exhilarating highs and devastating lows. The fleet has taken astronauts on dozens of successful missions, resulting in immeasurable scientific gains. But this success has had a serious cost. In 1986, the Challenger exploded duri...
One possible game-changer is if SpaceX can really prove the concept of reusable rockets. If they can do this significantly better than NASA could with the Space Shuttle, then they may largely negate two of the potential advantages of the space elevator (scalability and cost). It remains to ...
NASA's mission with the ISS is, of course, inextricably tied to the success of the shuttle flights. "The ISS is a testing ground for new technologies that would be used in long-duration space flight," said NASA spokesman Jim Rostohar. But he added that without the space shuttles, further...
How SpaceX changed the cost of one astronaut seat on a spacecraft. Data on the cost of launches at Soyuz from 2017 to 2020 From 2013 to 2016, SpaceX made an average of six successful launches per year, but significantly increased its pace in 2017. ...
Space Shuttle Mission STS-77, Lam et al. analyzed the effects of spaceflight on the production of monorden byHumicola fuscoatraWC5157, a marine fungus. Monorden has demonstrated antimicrobial activity against pathogenic fungi and antitumour activity on human tumor cell growth in vitro189. Using ...
A classic example is the disaster of the Space Shuttle Challenger on January 28, 1986, that cost the lives of seven people.2 It was caused by rubber O-rings that should seal the shuttle and that lost elasticity at temperatures below the freezing point. The flow of information in this ...
Space Shuttle Mission STS-77, Lam et al. analyzed the effects of spaceflight on the production of monorden byHumicola fuscoatraWC5157, a marine fungus. Monorden has demonstrated antimicrobial activity against pathogenic fungi and antitumour activity on human tumor cell growth in vitro189. Using ...
cost to orbit 15 metric tones (33000 lb) payload or 60-passenger design. These space cats promise to bring costs from the NASA standard of about $15,000/kg to below $1,200/kg. $600+ million per launch for a space shuttle equates $19.5 million for higher CFFC payload capacity (23 ...