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$288.1 billion
- According to a recent analysis by the Planetary Society, that translates into an estimated $288.1 billion in inflation-adjusted dollars. That's roughly equivalent to spending NASA's current annual budget on a single project and sustaining that effort for more than a decade.
www.cbsnews.com/news/apollo-11-moon-landing-how-much-did-it-cost/Apollo 11: How much did it cost to land astronauts on the moon?
Jul 16, 2019 · In current-year dollars, the analysis shows, the Apollo command and service modules cost the equivalent of $39 billion to develop, the lunar module ran another $23.4 billion, and the giant...
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Jun 14, 2019 · NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine offered the first estimate of how much the agency's program to return humans to the moon could cost: $20 billion to $30 billion.
Sep 23, 2020 · NASA yesterday revealed that its forthcoming Artemis missions to the Moon—including crewed landings on the lunar surface— will cost around $28 billion. Think that’s a lot of money for a NASA...
Nov 15, 2021 · NASA's spending on its Artemis program of crewed lunar exploration will reach a total of $93 billion by 2025, according to a new audit by the NASA Office of Inspector General.
Sep 17, 2024 · Artemis is expensive, but Apollo was exorbitant: the program cost around $290 billion in today’s dollars, according to the Planetary Society, compared with Artemis’s $93 billion. In those...
Aug 22, 2022 · Two members of the crew will then use Starship to land on the moon’s surface near the lunar south pole. Those astronauts will spend about 6.5 days exploring and doing research, and then...
Apr 16, 2021 · NASA announced on Friday that it had awarded a contract to SpaceX for $2.9 billion to use Starship to take astronauts from lunar orbit to the surface of the moon. The contract extends...
