The Risk of National Investment in Space

In may of that year, j f k gos tocongress to set his nation on course for the moon. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind than landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. Think at the time, 25 billion dollars, which to day, is just a little less than 200 billion. And then over four % of the federal budget by by the mid 19 sixties. Hundreds of thousand of people working on this programme. It was amass mobilization of effort and resources to an extent that it was many times the expense of the panama canal or the manhattan project. That level risk is its fascinating. I