Chasing the Moon is expensive,very expensiveA small step for man but a giant leap for mankind but most of all a colossal price for public finances.
Apollo has cost $ 24 billion for US taxpayers at that time (which represents $170 billion nowadays). On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy declaring to Congress that « none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish. ». Apollo trigger a motivation, involvement like no previous program. Apollo has cost $ 24 billion
To show the importance of the Apollo program we decided to compare it to another program the A380 program:
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The A380 is the second biggest plane ever built, the plane has cost 12 billion euros ($17.1 billion) to develop.
10 times less compared to the Apollo program with $ 170 b.
10 times less compared to the Apollo program with $ 170 b.
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- 170 Billion dollars. It is almost the turnover of Apple who is the 15th largest company in the world in terms of turnover in 2015 according to Fortune global.
- TOTAL a private French oil company, its market capitalization is 100 billion euros, the total cost of the Apollo program is 70% higher.
- Compared to Thales it is 10 years of annual turnover of Thales
The Apollo program employed 400,000 people.
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The Apollo program employed 400,000 American engineers,scientists,designers. and required the support of over 20,000 industrial firms and universities.
400 thousand it is almost as much as McDonald's Corporation in the world . McDonald's Corporation is In the top 30 largest firms by number of employees.
Landing on the moon was expensive but not excessive, and should not include budgetary huge scandals or exceeded.