Top 10: What are the top 10 most expensive space missions?

Date: 1981-2011
Cost: $199bn

Date: 1998-2020
Cost: $160bn (estimated)

Date: 1961-1972
Cost: $109bn

(NASA’s replacement manned rocket and capsule)

Date: 2014-2018
Cost: $23bn (estimated)

Date: 1978-present
Cost: $12bn

Date: 1990-present
Cost: $10bn

Date: 1977-1982
Cost: $9bn

Date: Scheduled for 2018
Cost: $8.8bn (estimated)

(Europe’s GPS)
Date: 2016
Cost: $6.3bn (estimated)

(Russia’s GPS)
Date: 1982-present
Cost: $4.7bn

*(Figures in billions of US dollars, adjusted for inflation)

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