Timeline for Why did the Apollo program become a MULTIPLE human landing program?
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| Oct 30, 2016 at 13:08 | comment | added | Innovine | There were some interesting ideas for sending an upgraded apollo on a flyby of venus. Apollo also flew in earth orbit after the moon missions. But I guess the money for further moon exploration ran out eventually. Likely it went into the shuttle program instead. | |
| Oct 28, 2016 at 10:48 | comment | added | David Hammen | Apollo wasn't about science or technology. It was about the US beating their arch rivals, the Soviet Union, at something, anything, in space. The US sent people to the Moon because that was perceived to be one of the first things the US could accomplish in space before the Soviet Union could. The one thing the Soviet Union could not have done in the 1960s was to replicate that huge mid 1960s non-sustainable bump in spending on NASA. | |
| Oct 27, 2016 at 20:37 | comment | added | Organic Marble | Saturn V production ended in 1968, that had to be a large part of the budget reduction. | |
| Oct 27, 2016 at 14:04 | comment | added | PearsonArtPhoto♦ | It's all related. The cost required to perform the Moon landing was mostly developed before, the extra costs for missions dropped. Of course, I think the average mission cost was still around \$1 billion, which is a lot, but quite a bit less than the \$25 billion the overall program cost. | |
| Oct 27, 2016 at 13:53 | comment | added | Russell Borogove | Apollo got cheaper after 1968 because less money was budgeted for it after 1968. The program was intended to have at least 3 more landings, and there was plenty more to be done with Apollo technology if the money hadn't been going to the Vietnam war. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Applications_Program | |
| Oct 27, 2016 at 13:37 | history | edited | PearsonArtPhoto♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 27, 2016 at 13:29 | history | answered | PearsonArtPhoto♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |