-- The NASA budget for FY 2012 is $17.77 billion.
That's 0.48% of the total federal budget.
-- It's also 5.73 times the amount of foreign aid to Pakistan, and
5.92 times the total foreign aid to Israel, for the same year.
(Pakistan receives more US foreign aid than Israel does.)
-- It's also 39.9 times the total of federal grants to public radio
and public television for 2012 and 2013 combined.
-- The NASA budget for all of 2012 corresponds to about
7.4 days worth of the Pentagon's budget in 2011.
Yes.
The cost of a space shuttle program varies. For example, the Space Shuttle program run by NASA cost approximately $450 million per mission. However, the overall cost of developing and operating a space shuttle throughout its lifetime is in the range of $1.5 billion to $2.5 billion per shuttle.
The cost to build a space shuttle varied depending on the specific model and program. For example, the total cost of the Space Shuttle program, including development and operation, was estimated to be around $196 billion. This cost included design, construction, maintenance, and launches of the shuttles.
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The cost of building a space shuttle was around $1.7 billion each for NASA. However, the total cost of the program, including development, maintenance, and operational expenses, was much higher. Overall, the Space Shuttle program cost estimates range from $100 billion to $200 billion over its lifetime.
The Space Shuttle program had an estimated cost of about $196 billion over its lifetime, from development to retirement in 2011. Each Space Shuttle mission was estimated to cost about $450 million.
A journey to space may cost a billion US dollars or more. The distance and the nature of the exploration program will also cause variations in the budget.
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Launching the space shuttle program cost approximately $450 million per mission. However, the space shuttle program has been retired, and new space missions are now using alternative spacecraft such as SpaceX's Crew Dragon or NASA's SLS.
Yes, "Space Program" should be capitalized when referring to the official name of a specific space program, such as NASA's Space Program.
The cost of the Space Shuttle Challenger program was around $1.2 billion per mission.
A program by JFK to get The Americans to space or to the moon!