[AR] Re: Testing Scaling Law

  • From: Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Arocket List <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 12:31:56 -0500 (EST)

On Fri, 11 Nov 2016, Ed LeBouthillier wrote:

Let's have some respect for the numbers here -- it was nowhere near that.
NASA's entire budget for the two or three peak years of Apollo (and it was
quite a sharp peak) was about 5% of the Federal budget, and a much smaller
percentage of GDP.

That figure is more of a reflection of statements that I've heard on the matter than on any personal research.

There were (and still are) widespread misconceptions about the size of the NASA budget then. But we shouldn't be encouraging them.

Henry

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