Two shuttles destroyed in 114 mission. One in fifty seven. Sixty thousands dollars a kilo payload. 1.3 billion a launch.
The total cost of the Voyager mission from May 1972 through the Neptune encounter (including launch vehicles, radioactive power source (RTGs), and DSN tracking support) is 865 million dollars which visited four planets. At $196 billion total shuttle cost you could have funded 226 voyager type missions. It was a thinly disguised coporate giveaway. Thank God it's over....
