Monday, February 27, 2017

Apollo program - Costs and budget (1960-1973)

When Kennedy made his 1962 speech at Rice University, the annual space budget was  $ 5.4 billion, and he described this cost as 40 cents per person per week, "somewhat less than we pay for cigarettes and cigars every year", but that the Moon program would soon raise this to "more than 50 cents a week for every man, woman and child in the United States".



Reference 1: Apollo budget ($ in thousands), NASA budget ($ in thousands) and Apollo share of total budget (%).

Reference 2: 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973 and Total.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program


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