Next Generation Apollo

I read a while back that the actual cost of each individual Apollo mission,
in today's currency, would be 2.25 billion dollars. The cost of each
shuttle was, in today's currency 3 billion dollars and that the current
shuttle budget is 3 billion dollars per year direct funding and an
additional 1 billion dollars goes to United Space Alliance and other support
systems.

Is this true?

In article , GMW wrote:
I read a while back that the actual cost of each individual Apollo mission,
in today's currency, would be 2.25 billion dollars.

Seems a bit high, but a billion wouldn't be surprising.

The cost of each
shuttle was, in today's currency 3 billion dollars

Hard to say, but $2bn is more like the correct figure as I understadn
it.

and that the current
shuttle budget is 3 billion dollars per year direct funding and an
additional 1 billion dollars goes to United Space Alliance and other support
systems.

The simple summary line "Space Shuttle" totals some $3,968m; I couldn't
say how much of that goes on contractor costs without digging. There's
another $434m which isn't classed as Shuttle or Station costs.


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-Andrew Gray

The simple summary line "Space Shuttle" totals some $3,968m; I couldn't
say how much of that goes on contractor costs without digging. There's
another $434m which isn't classed as Shuttle or Station costs.



If thats per year its near 4.5 billion per year. Nowadd on another half billion
to pay for safety upgrades/

Thats now about 5 billion a year for all shuttle costs or about one billion per
flight if we fly 5 per year.

"GMW"
Is this true?

It's true that NASA spent dollars and went to the moon, and they spend
dollars and fly the STS from time to time.