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wkat4242 on April 30, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why is it so hard to pull off a lunar landing?

Wasn't the military budget higher back then because of active wars? The Vietnam War was in full swing back then.

I don't have the numbers though.

dragonwriter on May 1, 2023 [–]

> Wasn’t the military budget higher back then because of active wars?

Yes, the spending on the Apollo program is pretty close (as share of GDP) to the current military budget, not to the contemporary (1960s) military budget, which ranged from a 7.6-9.4% of GDP.

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