I was in Hawaii when I saw it on TV. I was in a Mango jungle meditating. Chirping Moongooses everywhere
Yeah we did. Apollo was the largest peacetime expenditure of public dollars in American history. From what I can remember, only World War II costed more money.
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26 Billion is not that much. The CA Train to Nowhere is 135 billion so far.
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Account for inflation. That was our point. It’s absolutely insane when you do the inflation calculation with the number they spent.
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Watching Neil Armstrong come out of the landing model and step onto the Moon surface was the first live television broadcast I ever saw here in Alaska. I was at Kulis Airforce station in Anchorage waiting for my flight home … which was delayed because the flight crew wanted to watch it. It wasn’t rebroadcast in Fairbanks until six hours later … which I got to watch again. That was also the most current television broadcast ever to be seen here. Even the ABC, CBS and NBC News broadcasts shown here back then were 24-hr delayed and regular programming was up to six weeks delayed.
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$228 billion in 2025 dollars.
I was a little kid and me and my older brother were goofing around in our room. My mom came down and told us we needed to see this and we begrudgingly went and watched the first step on the moon. Today I thank God for my mom (she is with The Lord now) that she dragged us down there to watch.
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$28,000,000,000 in 1969 is worth $245,259,400,544.96
And WW2 cost more than 4 Trillion at the time=-adjust that for inflation. 
WORLD TRADE CENTER 2-3 Trilion
I think you’re using the entire world cost with WWII with that.
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Now its time for a manned mission to Mars.
I suspect the biggest hurdle is life support and psychological challenges.
Not just having a feasible and workable closed loop system for oxygen, water and food but adequate radiation shielding for what would I think a 9 month journey plus for the time spent on Mars.
As I have said before despite the dangers there would be no shortage of qualified volunteers. Exploration is in our DNA and pushing the boundaries of our existence is central to what it means to be human.
A manned mission to mars if done correctly could unite humankind in a way that we have not seen in too long a time.
This was expensive
So we should make sure the flight crew is sutitably diverse?
(ducks)
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LOL. Taking my shoe off 
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Great movie. In fact ifs a brilliant movie.
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Everyone should be represented. All racial groups, midgets, people with gigantism, you name it they should be represented.
Oh yeah and all 60 or so genders.
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The Bugs eat them all like candy.
I was 8, without a care in the world. Watched it on the great big TV that took several men to carry into the house.
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Why??
With the HUGE 27-inch screen, right? 
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I explained why in my earlier post.
