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Project Apollo in general, and the flight of Apollo 11 in particular, should be viewed as a watershed in the nation's history. It was an endeavor that demonstrated both the technological and economic virtuosity of the United States and established technologically preeminence over rival nations--the primary goal of the program when first envisioned by the Kennedy administration in 1961. It had been an enormous undertaking, costing $25.4 billion (about $95 billion in 1990 dollars), with only the building of the Panama Canal rivaling the Apollo program's size as the largest non-military technological endeavor ever undertaken by the United States and only the Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb in World War II being comparable in a wartime setting.  
The Apollo program in general, and the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon in particular, should be viewed as a watershed in the history of the United States. It demonstrated both the technological and economic virtuosity of the United States and established technological preeminence over rival nations -- the primary goal of the program when first envisioned by President Kennedy in 1961.  


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It had been an enormous undertaking, costing $25.4 billion (about $170 billion in 2005 dollars),<ref>[http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/57xx/doc5772/09-02-NASA.pdf A Congressional Budget Office Study: A Budgetary Analysis of NASA’s New Vision for Space Exploration] Sept. 2004. A quote from the bottom part of pdf page 38 of 58 pdf pages: "The total cost of the [Apollo] program in 2005 dollars was about $170 billion."</ref> Only the building of the [[Panama Canal]] rivaled the Apollo program's size as the largest non-military technological endeavor ever undertaken by the United States ... and only the [[Manhattan Project]] to build the [[atomic bomb]] in [[World War II]] was comparable in a wartime setting.
 
The Apollo program gave the people of the world a new view of the planet Earth. On their outward voyage to the Moon, the crew of Apollo 8 focused a television camera on Earth and for the first time humanity saw its home as a tiny, lovely, and fragile "blue marble" hanging in the blackness of space.


Project Apollo forced the people of the world to view the planet Earth in a new way. Apollo 8 was critical to this fundamental change, for on its outward voyage the crew focused a portable television camera on Earth and for the first time humanity saw its home from afar, a tiny, lovely, and fragile "blue marble" hanging in the blackness of space.
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The Apollo space program was the largest technical undertaking of the twentieth century. In three short years, from 1969-1972, nine missions headed to the moon, and six of them landed men on its surface and safely returned home.
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*[http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/57xx/doc5772/09-02-NASA.pdf Congressional Budget Office Study: A Budgetary Analysis of NASA’s New Vision for Space Exploration] September 2004  pdf page 38 of 68 pdf pages


The total cost of the program in 2005 dollars was about $170 billion. That total included all research and development (R&D) costs; the cost of procuring 15 Saturn V rockets, 16 command service modules (C/SMs), and 12 lunar modules; program support and management costs; expenses for facilities and their upgrading; and the cost of conducting flight
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http://history.nasa.gov/Apollomon/Apollo.html

The Apollo program in general, and the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon in particular, should be viewed as a watershed in the history of the United States. It demonstrated both the technological and economic virtuosity of the United States and established technological preeminence over rival nations -- the primary goal of the program when first envisioned by President Kennedy in 1961.

It had been an enormous undertaking, costing $25.4 billion (about $170 billion in 2005 dollars),[1] Only the building of the Panama Canal rivaled the Apollo program's size as the largest non-military technological endeavor ever undertaken by the United States ... and only the Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb in World War II was comparable in a wartime setting.

The Apollo program gave the people of the world a new view of the planet Earth. On their outward voyage to the Moon, the crew of Apollo 8 focused a television camera on Earth and for the first time humanity saw its home as a tiny, lovely, and fragile "blue marble" hanging in the blackness of space.




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enlisted 20,000 companies, hundreds of thousands of individuals, and some 25.5 billion dollars.

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  1. ↑ A Congressional Budget Office Study: A Budgetary Analysis of NASA’s New Vision for Space Exploration Sept. 2004. A quote from the bottom part of pdf page 38 of 58 pdf pages: "The total cost of the [Apollo] program in 2005 dollars was about $170 billion."
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