Cost of NASA's Apollo program
Cost of NASA's Apollo program
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When the
President J. F. Kennedy announced the program which would lead man to
Luna, the preliminary estimate of expenses was 7,000 million dollars.
There was also another estimate made by James Webb that amounted to 20,000
millions.
It was in 1973
when it was reported to the congress that the total cost of the program Apollo it was 25,400 million
Dollars. ***one
• Investigation and development.
• The acquisition of 15 Saturn V rockets
• 16 service / command modules.
• 12 lunar modules.
• Support for programs and expenses in
question.
• Expenditures in the construction and
maintenance of the installations.
• Cost of flight operations.
In 2009 the
NASA held a symposium in which
estimated that the total cost of the program Apollo
in US dollars in 2005 it would be 170,000 million.
Comparing, the federal budget of
United States of America, which in 2005 was 2''400,000'000,000 dollars, which
the program Apollo would be equivalent to 7.083%
of that budget.
In a correspondence to a coin
foreign currency, for example the Mexican peso (MXN); $ 1 USD cost $ 10,923 MXN in
average in 2005.
Therefore it would be equivalent to $ 1''856,910'000,000
MXN (almost 2 billion pesos).
In
That same year, Mexico had a budget of expenditures of the federation of $ 1''818,441'700,000
which is equivalent to 97.92% of the investment of the program Apollo (with its corresponding correspondence in 2005 to MXN).
It was
really huge the investment of the program Apollo,
as well as the entire budget of a country of the "Group of 20" (countries
industrialized and emerging). Whose GDP (PPA) of Mexico in 2010 was placed in the position
No. 11***two
Cost of return
to the Moon in 2020:
In 2004 the
NASA estimated that the investment of the program Constallation
It will be 230,000 million dollars. And in 2008 another estimate was more
economic with some cuts, settling at 97,000 million.
On 1
February 2010, the government of President Barak Obama canceled the project on
which would return man to the Moon due to budget cuts. Do not
However, the budget of NASA in 2011 rose by 3.8%, rising to US
$ 19.00 million.
The
space programs do not represent a cost in vain, but an investment, the
which NASA has produced 4 times what it invested with more than 6,300
patents (they are not few). The whole world has benefited thanks to these huge
investments, which in the 60's the United States was forced to carry out
due to the Cold War, but nowadays with the great advances that have been made in technologies and knowledge, a fortiori should be done to
that humanity continues to progress in that direction.
When it was believed that the program Constallation
would follow its course, it had been thought that man could reach Mars
shortly before 2050, but with this fact, we might not see that
feat until the end of the century.
Some
ways that NASA could invest more, would be that CNSA (National Space Administration of China) take
the leadership in 1 or 2 decades in space issues, creating a "new
Cold War ", another would be that private investment has too boom for NASA to be dwarfed or for any technology to be economically sustainable enough in the near future (10 years).
Failure to invest in space technology will stall the
humanity many decades in the conquest of space.
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