In the end it turned out that for the life of the shuttle program, each launch ended up costing between 700 million and 1.2 billion, so the 1970s goal of an eco

In the end it turned out that for the life of the shuttle program, each launch ended up costing between 700 million and 1.2 billion, so the 1970s goal of an economically reusable spacecraft was definitely not achieved.