Was the Space Shuttle Worth It? - Timothy D. Terrell - Mises Daily

Was the Space Shuttle Worth It? - Timothy D. Terrell - Mises Daily: "One NASA estimate — on the low end, because it does not account for inflation — is $115.5 billion, or around $860 million per launch. That's still far higher than NASA's original projection of $7 million per launch, predicated as it was on far more frequent launches. Two more recent estimates are $193 billion (in 2010 dollars) and $211 billion. For the program's 135 launches, that's $1.43 billion and $1.56 billion per launch, respectively."