If traveling to the Moon is so expensive, why were six crewed missions sent? Wouldn’t one have been enough?
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AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Explain why the US hasn’t gone back in so long, and why with modern technology it seems so difficult?
The Apollo program took 4.5% of the US budget. NASA’s entire budget now—including space telescopes, earth satellites, and interplanetary probes—is less than half of one percent.
sandayle@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
TrumpetX@programming.dev 20 hours ago
Why build one when you can build two at twice the price!
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Seriously though, the cost was largely in the preparation. At some point you want to get more out of all that work. Yes, it was expensive for each actual launch. I wonder what the cost of stopping at the first one would have been. I’m WAGing that half the cost was getting there the first time. The other half was 5 more. That would be an interesting stat to know.
sbeak@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Woah that is kind of insane, I did not know that the modern budget was that much lower! :0