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How much did the Apollo moon program cost – in today's money?
Total cost of the Apollo program, inflation-adjusted (2020)
💡 Over 400,000 people worked on it. At its peak it took more than 4% of the US federal budget.
Answer
€225B
€225,000,000,000 · Total cost · 2020
US$25.8B nominal. At its peak, over 4% of the US federal budget went to NASA.
About US$257B (2020 value), converted at the 2020 rate.
Source: The Planetary Society (2020)
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