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NASA's budget peaked in 1964–66 when it consumed roughly 4% of all federal spending. The agency was building up to the first Moon landing and the Apollo program was a top national priority, consuming more than half of NASA's budget and driving NASA's workforce to more than 34,000 employees and 375,000 contractors from industry and academia.
[3] [4] However, the claim that NASA spent millions on the Space Pen is incorrect, as the Fisher pen was developed using private capital, not government funding. The development of the thixotropic ink cost Paul Fisher around $1 million (equivalent to $10 million in 2023). [5] NASA, and the Soviets, [4] [6] [7] eventually began purchasing such pens.
After the first Moon landing, public and political interest waned, including that of President Nixon, who wanted to rein in federal spending. [140] NASA's budget could not sustain Apollo missions which cost, on average, $445 million ($2.66 billion adjusted) [141] each while simultaneously developing the Space Shuttle. The final fiscal year of ...
SpaceX has had several fixed-price contracts with NASA, including a $1.6 billion contract in 2008 for 12 missions under the agency's Commercial Resupply Services program and a $2.6 billion ...
At launch, NASA had spent approximately US$4.7 billion in inflation-adjusted 2010 dollars on the project. [74] Hubble's cumulative costs are estimated to be about US$11.3 billion in 2015 dollars, which include all subsequent servicing costs, but not ongoing operations, making it the most expensive science mission in NASA history.
In a $19.5 million NASA-funded mission, a team at George Mason University is heading a project to construct and launch a small satellite into orbit. ... the satellite will then spend its inaugural ...
The University of Hawaii’s Pan-STARRS1 telescope spotted another rocket part in 2020 that helped launch NASA’s doomed Surveyor 2 lunar probe in 1966 during the height of the 20th century space ...
[2] [3] [4] NASA tested and approved the pen for space use, especially since they were less flammable than pencils, [1] then purchased 400 pens at $2.95 apiece (equivalent to $27 each in 2023). [5] The Soviet Union subsequently also purchased the space pen for its Soyuz spaceflights.