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[-] turdas@suppo.fi 15 points 5 days ago

They were well funded back when their real goal was to develop ICBMs capable of delivering nukes.

[-] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 days ago

I get what you are saying, but the Saturn V was never intended to be an ICBM. Depending on what numbers you look at too, they weren’t actually that well funded. Some of the largest estimates that I’ve seen place NASA’s inflation adjusted budget between 1960 and 1973 at just under $600 billion. Or roughly half of what we’re spending in one year on the military currently.

To put it another way, at its absolute peak budget NASA received roughly 4.6% of the current military budget.