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The most popular argument is that the price is way too high especially when economic issues in our own nation are taken into account. It costs approximately, “$10,000/lb. to launch a package into orbit,”(NASA chief Venneri in NASA predicts 50-year missions). It costs an estimated “$450 million to launch a single shuttle”(Pinchefsky). The other popular subject to be brought up in opposition of space exploration is the danger to human life. Shuttles which tend to carry the most passengers have had two out of five fail and resulted in the death of many people: seven from the Challenger, and the Columbia also killed seven. Many overlook these issues but there is still a small amount of people that continue to press this as a major issue and reason enough to keep space flight