The Apollo program cost $25.4 billion (about $152 billion in today's money).

Jul 21, 2021
2:21:10pm

SpiffCoug Sequel Trilogy Fan

Apollo 11’s 50th Anniversary: The Facts And Figures Behind The $152 Billion Moon Landing

What did it take to get to the moon? Tens of billions—and the help of almost every major American business.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2019/07/20/apollo-11-facts-figures-business/[https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2019/07/20/apollo-11-facts-figures-business/?sh=689df8733771]

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Just some perspective on the cost of Jeff Bezos' space adventure

Traveshamockery

7/21/21 2:00pm

This type of analysis of how the wealthy spend their money makes it sound like they just blew money into the ether...

Tokolosh

7/21/21 2:05pm

The whole notion of attacking billionaires over the last 3 to 5 years is just

BlackBart

7/21/21 2:10pm

All fair points.

Traveshamockery

7/21/21 2:10pm

This is the kind of thing we want billionaire's doing. Just handing out money is

Lance71

7/21/21 2:14pm

Yep, I'm hearing this essentially Marxist criticism from both the left and the supposed right these days

CSoul

7/21/21 2:17pm

How many jobs were created from this venture?

John Doe

7/21/21 2:07pm

Spent it on what? Someone was the recipient, and it could have even been a

Memmo

7/21/21 2:09pm

Rocket fuel isn't made of dollar bills?

groy

7/21/21 2:10pm

Can't we say that about anything?

Carnac

7/21/21 2:12pm

It's not just the future though. It's the present. He has created a lot of jobs.

Lance71

7/21/21 2:17pm

Is it worth Bezos's time to pick up a $100 bill off the ground if it takes

run26

7/21/21 2:20pm

I have a funny story about this

Carnac

7/21/21 2:24pm

Awesome story!

ChiCityCoug

7/21/21 2:27pm

He's got bigger issues if it takes him 10 seconds to pick up a $100 bill. That's a 2 second job, max. 😉

Tokolosh

7/21/21 2:26pm

The Apollo program cost $25.4 billion (about $152 billion in today's money).

SpiffCoug

7/21/21 2:21pm

That money obviously should have gone toward reparations.

Carnac

7/21/21 2:24pm

Easy to condemn others

taylorcoug

7/21/21 2:26pm

Could you point to where I "condemned" him? I feel like I was fair

Traveshamockery

7/21/21 2:31pm

I was not clear

taylorcoug

7/21/21 4:33pm

That $5.5 billion didn't just disappear. It paid for a ton of jobs

Doogal McCougar

7/21/21 2:33pm

So we should cancel the NASA program? Their budget is 23 billion this year.

JuicyJam

7/21/21 2:38pm

Misnomer - rich are getting richer, but the poor are also getting richer.

delbert

7/21/21 2:40pm

Relative to the richest, though, they feel poorer because the gap is increasing

Carnac

7/21/21 2:44pm

So because they 'feel' poorer, they yearn for the days where they actually were

delbert

7/21/21 3:02pm

RE: Just some perspective on the cost of Jeff Bezos' space adventure

SpiffCoug

7/21/21 7:23pm

Funny but not even close to being comparable.

Apollo 11’s 50th Anniversary: The Facts And Figures Behind The $152 Billion Moon Landing

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