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Originally Posted by Fuzz
^That's only $22 billion/year. NASA's current budget is $21 billion. Obviously NASA has their fingers in a lot more pots now, but still, it isn't that much money in the grand scheme of US budgets.
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In the peak Apollo years it was 30-40 billion in today’s dollars and they had one single mandate.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA
GDP was roughly 1 trillion in those days, funding was 5 billion plus from 65-69 so .4% of GDP. Today GDP is 20 trillion so the 20 billion today is roughly .1% of GDP.
So somewhere between double and four times depending on how you look at the number with a very narrow mandate.