Apollo 11 program cost

Why was there no Apollo 2 or 3? Why the space shuttle failed? Fundamentally, it failed in the goal of reducing the cost of space access.

What happened to the crew of Apollo 18? Technically, Apollo 18 was never canceled at all, only "renumbered" to be included in the modified schedule.

No crews officially were assigned to the canceled missions. The normal crew rotation had the backup crew for a mission moving up to become the prime flight crew three missions later. How many Saturn V rockets are left? Only three Saturn V rockets remain today, and only one is assembled from entirely from flight-capable hardware. The jobs created, the technology gains, the intangible feeling of love for the country, American ideals, the future of generations, and hope for spreading humankind through the galaxies are just some of which was inspired by and created from the Apollo Program missions.

I find it difficult to argue against the comparatively low Apollo Program cost, especially when looking at other significant expenditures taken on by the U. The US is working with private industry to create efficient ways to send astronauts to space and beyond. Both amounts are unadjusted for inflation.

Thanks for identifying the confusing phrasing. Oh god.. Its been two years and no one has commented this atrocity misuse of grammar. My OCD is not going to take it anymore! There was a study done by the OMB or CBO in the s I think that evaluated the returns to our economy from Project Apollo indicating that we received somewhere between four and seven dollars for every dollar spent in the form of new technologies, new scientific discoveries, new materials science, manufacturing and management paradigms for doing large projects, electronics, and medical imagining CAT scans and NMRIs , etc.

I have heard of this study for many years, but can anyone provide a link to it? I would like to use it to refute those who say Project Apollo was a waste.

It is true that, for every dollar we spend on the space program, the U. Space exploration can also serve as a stimulus for children to enter the fields of science and engineering. And where are these technologies and achievements, if now are forced to buy rocket engines from Russia and fly to the ISS in a Russian vehicle?

They inflated just a monetary bubble, included a mechanism of permanent inflation, which a burden on the economies of those countries that began to believe that the US is the most advanced country in all respects, with developed science, industry and technology.

There really was no landing, it was not needed. But all this is not important, the main thing is money! Is not it? Jerry Pournelle reported that during the same time as Apollo, the US spent as much on cosmetics, and New York among large states, spent more on liquor. Robert Zubrin in late 90s reported that we spend more on each; fast food, illegal drugs, and lotteries, than on NASA.

He showed that in terms of fraction of the total or discretionary budget, NASA is getting only fractionally less than during Apollo, while doing much less development of new capability. Direct costs for the Saturn family of launch vehicles and related engine development, per year.

Nearly all cost data are from public NASA budget submissions covering the fiscal years FYs - , which list obligations contracted spending amounts for the fiscal year 2 years previous. For example, the FY budget justification lists obligated program amounts in FY Exceptions are listed below. Budget Operations Division.

Record Number Box 1. The stalled plans for a U. NASA is now preparing for an ambitious new era of sustainable human spaceflight and discovery. The agency is building the Space Launch System rocket and the Orion spacecraft for human deep space exploration. It is highly unlikely that NASA will ever again rely on rockets it has built on its own.

The Space Launch System is the end of the line.