What does the ISS cost?
A. The bad news is that the ISS, including its development, assembly and its running costs over at least ten years, comes to 100 billion euros. The good news is that the 100 billion figure is shared over a period of almost 30 years and between all the participants: the US, Russia, Canada, Japan and 10 of the 15 European nations who are part of ESA. The European share, at around 8 billion euros spread over the whole programme, amounts to just one euro spent by every european every year: less than the price of a cup of coffee in most of our big cities.
