The longest mission, STS 80, lasted over 17 days. It was involved in construction of the International Space Station (ISS), providing crew rotation for ISS/Mir, performing service missions on the Hubble Space Telescope, getting satellites or interplanetary craft into high orbits, spacelab experiments, Earth mapping missions, as well as recovering satellites and other payloads from orbit. The Space Shuttle missions involved carrying large payloads from Low to High Earth Orbit. The STS program and further shuttles cost $169 Billion US Dollars over 30 years. By contrast the sale price of the (most popular) Boeing 737 airliner series in 2022 is from $90 - $134 million US dollars (including profit margins, and a small fraction of R&D costs). It cost $49 billion US Dollars, adjusted to 2020 values, to develop and launch the very first Space Shuttle. The Space Shuttle is an incredibly complex craft. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program - the Space Transportation System (STS). The Space Shuttle ( Wikipedia) is a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S.
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