NASA Captures ‘EPIC’ Image of Dark Side of Moon
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(@EcoWatch) August 07, 2015
The dark side of the moon
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in technological progress Tags: earth, moon, NASA, space
The cost of sports stadium races to the bottom and the cost of going to Pluto compared
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Many forget how expensive the moon program was in the 60s and that it wasn’t popular!
18 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economic history, politics - USA Tags: expressive voting, moon, NASA, public R&D, R&D, space program
NASA's budget as a percentage of Federal spending. Wish this chart went up. =( buff.ly/1FygxQ7 http://t.co/dEczs1QNoi—
Tyler Vigen (@TylerVigen) May 26, 2015
…many people believe that Project Apollo was popular, probably because it garnered significant media attention, but the polls do not support a contention that Americans embraced the lunar landing mission.
Consistently throughout the 1960s a majority of Americans did not believe Apollo was worth the cost, with the one exception to this a poll taken at the time of the Apollo 11 lunar landing in July 1969.
And consistently throughout the decade 45-60 percent of Americans believed that the government was spending too much on space, indicative of a lack of commitment to the spaceflight agenda. These data do not support a contention that most people approved of Apollo and thought it important to explore space.
HT: Moondoggle: The Forgotten Opposition to the Apollo Program – The Atlantic.
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