Па и не плаћају баш много.
Ако ће их коштати 360 милиона за 2010 и 2011 то је јефтиније него једно лансирање шатла.
The total cost of the shuttle program has been $145 billion as of early 2005, and is estimated to be $174 billion when the shuttle retires in early 2011. NASA's budget for 2005 allocated 30%, or $5 billion, to space shuttle operations;[21] this was decreased in 2006 to a request of $4.3 billion.[22]
Per-launch costs can be measured by dividing the total cost over the life of the program (including buildings, facilities, training, salaries, etc.) by the number of launches. With 115 missions (as of 6 August 2006), and a total cost of $150 billion ($145 billion as of early 2005 + $5 billion for 2005,[21] this gives approximately $1.3 billion per launch. Another method is to calculate the incremental (or marginal) cost differential to add or subtract one flight — just the immediate resources expended/saved/involved in that one flight. This is about $60 million U. S. dollars.[23]
Early cost estimates of $118 per pound ($260/kg) of payload were based on marginal or incremental launch costs, and based on 1972 dollars and assuming a 65,000 pound (30 000 kg) payload capacity.[24][25] Correcting for inflation, this equates to roughly $36 million incremental per launch costs; today's actual incremental per launch costs of $60 million are about two thirds more than this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_program
По овим податцима сваки шатл ланч је $1,3 милијарде далеко више него што плаћају Русима.
