Abstract No country currently spends, or has ever spent, as much as the USA in the world’s space industry. At the moment of the Apollo missions (Just to give a figure, NASA gave a final figure of the cost of the Apollo mission at US$25.4 billion in 1973 dollars (NASA 2014) , which translates in US$2018 dollar 144.18 million [the figure comes from the Bureau of Labour Statistics consumer price index, according to which prices in 2018 are 467.65% higher than prices in 1973].) that put a man on the lunar soil, the USA had a budget allocation for space missions of almost 4.5% of their federal budget—an astronomic amount if compared to the current allocation. Moreover, if there is a name known over all the others in the space sector is NASA .
Beyond Europe: Space Powers Around the World
The New Frontiers of Space ; 113-152
2019-01-01
40 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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