To write a rhyming poem, brainstorm words from a particular word family and build your poem around these. You can find examples of words in the most common word families here. For example, for summer poems you might use the word family -un (sun, fun, run, bun) or -ot (hot, spot, forgot, plot).
Report Abuse. Estimates I have heard say that is costs $10,000US per pound of weight just to get the craft into orbit. If you consider that the average astronaut weighs in at 150 pounds, and you can have up to 7 people riding that comes out to $10,500,000 in just weight of passengers.The launch vehicle (shuttle, external tank, solid rocket boosters, plus payloads) can weigh hundreds of thousands of pounds...ouch, that's a lot of money.f you consider that the average astronaut weighs in at 150 pounds, and you can have up to 7 people riding that comes out to $10,500,000 in just weight of passengers. The launch vehicle (shuttle, external tank, solid rocket boosters, plus payloads) can weigh hundreds of thousands of pounds...ouch, that's a lot of money.
Big Numbers. The MESSENGER mission cost $280 million (which, in reality, isn't a vast amount for a space mission). The launch of a space shuttle costs $450 million and there have been about 130 of them. It cost $1.7 billion to build just one of the five-strong fleet. Finally, the International Space Station has, over the years of its existence, cost an estimated $142 billion and that's not including the plethora of smaller space missions, other space agencies and other expenses involved in space exploration.