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... several external tanks and solid rocket boosters. Operational costs are about $500 million for each Shuttle mission. (Ref 2.)
Ref 2.http://www.space.com/news/shuttle_cost_050211.html
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Answer provided by Jon H. Brown
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A spaceship can be nearly any weight from a few ounces to millions of pounds. The NASA Space Shuttle weighs about 4.5 million pounds at lift off. (Ref.1)
Ref 1.NASA, National Space Transportation System Reference, Volume 1 Systems and Facilities, June 1988. This document is available on the Internet at: http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/technology/sts-newsref/stsreftoc ...
... and maintenance cost is several billions of dollars each year.
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Answer provided by Thomas Rogers & Russell Romanella
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... cells is about 21,000 watts continuously, with a peak output of 36,000 watts. This compares to a typical home that might use a maximum of 23,000 watts. Besides electricity, the ... 1.NASA, National Space Transportation System Reference, Volume 1 Systems and Facilities, June 1988.
This document is available on the Internet at: http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/technology/sts-newsref/stsreftoc ...
A space shuttle could be any size so long as it can be launched from Earth. The limiting ... the booster—in the case of the NASA Space Shuttle, the two solid rocket boosters plus the three main engines. The NASA Space Shuttle weighs about 4.5 million pounds at lift off ... orbiter lands, it weighs about 230,000 pounds, depending on how much of the payload is returned. (Ref.1)
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... ones cost even more. This number does not include the costs of the research and development that went into designing and testing the Shuttle. Overall, if you look at the entire history of the Space Shuttle ... and maintaining the Space Shuttle program and all of its facilities at around $150 billion. Of course at this point, the Space Shuttle program is facing retirement in 2010, so in a very short ...
If you want to know how much it costs NASA to fly the Space Shuttle once, then that number is a little easier to find. Depending on how you count it's between $500 million and $1 ... Space - by Lonnie Schorer
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... of as being in free fall around the Earth, just like astronauts in the Shuttle or on the Space Station. Things have mass all the time because mass is the amount of ... in space is that inertia is a function of mass, not weight. Changing direction while walking on the Moon is a bit more difficult than on Earth, as you don't have as much ... the mass of the Moon with the mass of the Earth shows how much less massive the Moon is. Remember, a ton is 2,000 pounds. Mass of: pounds Moon 162,000,000 ...
Much of the garbage and waste on board the Space Shuttle is stored in large bags or stowage containers and returned to Earth with the Shuttle at the end of the mission. For the ISS re-supply missions, much of the ... & George Veaudry
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The Space Shuttle is very explosive. The very attributes that make hydrogen and oxygen good propellants—high energy content and hypergolic (meaning they combust on mixing without the need for a spark ... H. Brown
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