NASA and SpaceX will make history on May 30 when it launches the Demo-2 Crew Dragon mission, the first crewed American flight to space since the end of NASA’s Space Shuttle Program. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and we'll crack it This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. Got a question? Send us an emailThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. Once the space shuttles are retired, NASA plans to rely on Russian, European and Japanese spacecraft to deliver cargo and crews to the space station until American-built private spacecraft are available. Both shuttle missions are bound to the International Space Station, where their astronaut crews will deliver new experiments, equipment and supplies. The shuttle Endeavour will make its final launch in late April with Atlantis to follow in late June. NASA currently plans to fly two more space shuttle missions before the fleet is retired. All together, the three shuttles are worth about $15.7 billion dollars not bad for vehicles that have enthused such awe and inspiration for decades. That equates to approximately $3.5 billion by today's dollar value. "It was $1.8 billion in 1987 dollars a single funding infusion from the Department of Defense." "Endeavour was cheaper because we utilized existing spare components from previous vehicle contracts," Herring said. The shuttle Endeavour, the orbiter built to replace the Challenger, cost just half as much as Discovery and Atlantis thanks to recycling parts and equipment. Challenger was destroyed just after launch in 1986, while Columbia broke apart during atmospheric re-entry in 2003. NASA also had two other space shuttles in its fleet, but both were lost in two fatal space disasters. NASA's space shuttle prototype Enterprise, which was used in landing tests but never flew in space, is committed to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City.Īccording to the United States Department of Labor's Consumer Price Index Inflation Calculator, that $2 billion comes out to about $6.1 billion in 2011 cash. Discovery the oldest and most traveled shuttle is going to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center in northern Virginia and Atlantis will stay in Florida at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Center following its final flight this summer. The shuttle Endeavour, NASA's youngest orbiter, has been promised to the California Science Center in Los Angeles, Calif.
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