This report responds to the former Chairman's request that we review the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) estimates of the Space Shuttle's average cost per flight and marginal cost per flight. The Congress needs to understand the content of these estimates to avoid confusion over what it costs to fly the shuttle. Our specific objectives were to determine (1) what costs are included in or excluded from each estimate and (2) how these costs should be allocated to NASA payload missions that are transported to space in the shuttle.
Space Transportation: The Content and Uses of Shuttle Cost Estimates. Report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight, Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, House of Representatives
1993
15 pages
Report
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Englisch