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.
Average Retirement Age Grows. MORE. Workers are now retiring at older ages because the incentives to retire have changed. Since the mid-1990s, the average retirement age has risen from 62 to 64 for men and from 60 to 62 for women, according to a new Center for Retirement Research at Boston College analysis of Census Bureau data.