The Last Shuttle

Final NASA shuttle mission clouded by rancor

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Cost will always tarnish the shuttle’s reputation. Once sold to Congress with promises of weekly flights for just $7 million a pop, the shuttle program never managed to make spaceflight routine or inexpensive. The shuttle program, in its totality, has cost more than a billion dollars per flight.

Comment: Let's see .... $ 1,000,000,000 to $ 7,000,000 to ... that's 142 to 1