Today, it costs $10,000 to put a pound of payload in Earth orbit. NASAâs goal is to reduce the cost of getting to space to hundreds of dollars per pound within 25 years and tens of dollars per pound within 40 years.he Fastrac engine is a 60,000-pound-thrust engine that will be used for the first powered flight of NASAâs X-34 technology demonstrator. Fastrac is less expensive than similar engines because of an innovative design approach that uses commercial, off-the-shelf parts and fewer of them.
The average life span in 1870 for a female was 25 and  for a male was 18. This is much lower coâ¦mpared to 1980 when the  average for women was 76 and for men 67. The average ages of death  for the last decade 2000-2010 was 78 for both sexes.
The current U.S. life expectancy is 77.5 years. This number takes the current rates of mortality at each age and figures out where the average is. Deaths at young ages impact life expectancy averages much more than older deaths. If a person dies at 18, that is 59.5 years lost.