How much did Space Shuttle program cost to build?
The Space Shuttle program was NASA's reusable crewed spaceflight programme, whose first orbiter flight, Columbia on STS-1, launched on 12 April 1981 and whose last mission, Atlantis on the 135th flight, launched on 8 July 2011. An Associated Press analysis published on 5 July 2011 put the total cost of the programme at USD 196 billion over about 40 years, adjusted for inflation, or about USD 1.45 billion per flight, more than twice the USD 90 billion NASA originally calculated.
Reported project cost
$196 billion
Cost basis: 2011
NASAPublic domain
Cost evidence
Basis of the published figure
Reported project cost2011
Project record