The Future Of Space: Private-Public Partnerships Eye Next Moon Landing

(CBS) – The Apollo program, which first took man to the moon, took a tremendous amount of resources – more than 400,000 people and $25.4 billion. In today’s dollars that is roughly $180 billion.
“At one point NASA was receiving over four percent of the federal budget, and today it’s less than half a percent,” pointed out Teasel Muir-Harmony, Space History Curator at the Smithsonian Museum.
The funding dynamic has helped create a different relationship between