Some Facts About the Space Shuttle

5 Horrifying Facts You Didn't Know About the Space Shuttle - Forbes (1/2)
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out of five Shuttles–Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavor—two met a disastrous and fiery fate. That’s a 40% vehicular failure rate (updated) and a flight failure rate of 1.5%.
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total program cost per flight of $1.3 billion (total 135 flights)
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the Shuttle’s trip to the International Space Station (ISS) was only a 200-250 mile journey… approximately the distance between NYC and Boston. The Shuttle also flew to the Hubble Telescope, which is maintained at an altitude of 350 miles, a little less than the distance from NYC to Norfolk, VA.
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the distance between the Earth to the Moon is 238,000 miles."
(about 1000 times more than Shuttle's flight)