Project Apollo Cost Data - The Planetary Society
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Project Apollo 1960 - 1973
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original $Adjusted 2024 $Relative GDP $
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Spacecraft8.3 billion95.5 billion204.5 billion
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Launch Vehicles9.4 billion113.2 billion248.3 billion
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Development & Operations2.9 billion30.6 billion63.2 billion
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Apollo Direct R&D Costs20.6 billion239.2 billion516.0 billion
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Construction of Facilities, Tracking, & Overhead5.2 billion59.0 billion139.2 billion
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Total Project Apollo25.8 billion298.2 billion655.1 billion
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Robotic Lunar Program907.0 million11.8 billion26.7 billion
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Project Gemini1.3 billion16.1 billion35.5 billion
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Total Lunar Effort28.0 billion326.0 billion717.4 billion
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Compiled by Casey Dreier for The Planetary Society.
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Detailed program breakouts and notes are in the additional worksheets.
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Inflation adjusted to 2024 using NASA New Start Index except for CoF, which uses the Production Workers Compensation Index for the same year.
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Relative GDP values represent the amount of spending necessary in 2020 to occupy the same share of the economy as the project did in the 1960s.
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Sources listed in the "Sources" tab