Costs
The most cited figure of an estimate of overall costs of the ISS ranges from 35 billion to 160 billion USD. ESA, the only agency actually stating potential overall costs on its website, estimates €100 billion. Giving a precise cost estimate for the ISS is not straightforward, as it is difficult to determine which costs should actually be contributed to the ISS program, or how the Russian contribution should be measured.
Read more about this topic: International Space Station Program
Famous quotes containing the word costs:
“It costs more to maintain ten vices than one virtue.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“That which costs little is less valued.”
—Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616)
“Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn, can work on the soil, can travel afoot, can talk with poor men, or sit silent well contented with fine saloons. But vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last; a long way leading nowhere.—Only one drawback; proud people are intolerably selfish, and the vain are gentle and giving.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)