The following content is not original, it is seen on Baidu Baike and Zhihu. Popular science, landing on the moon is not only about burning money.
Baidu Encyclopedia content: The Apollo project began in May 1961 and ended successfully on the sixth lunar landing in December 1972. It took about 11 years and cost US$25.5 billion. It accounted for about 0.57% of the US GDP that year, and about 20% of all US research and development funding for science and technology that year. Provides amazing long-term growth in employment. At the peak of the project, 20,000 companies, more than 200 universities, and more than 80 scientific research institutions participated in the project, with a total of more than 300,000 people. The profound impact of its scientific and technological achievements has benefited mankind so far.
Know the content: The space shuttle was a product made by the United States that gathered top technologies in various fields. Retirement does not mean that the investment of these funds is worthless. Although the space shuttle is hidden in the snow, the top technology it creates has always existed. The space shuttle project has lasted for nearly 40 years. The five major NASA centers (Johnson, Marshall, Goddard, Kennedy, and Stennis) are mainly responsible for the entire process, bringing a lot of funding and scientific research output; its manufacturer, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Orbital Sciences are the world's top defense/aerospace/aerospace companies, earning a lot of money on the space shuttle project. In particular, Lockheed Martin's growth, a large number of mergers and acquisitions and integration of US defense companies during the space shuttle project cycle, is now the world's largest defense/munitions company. The space shuttle project consumed one-third or even half of the early products of the US semiconductor, integrated circuit, computer, microelectronics and other industries, directly promoting the rise of these industries in the United States and leading the world. U.S. universities and scientific research institutions have a lot of participation, so I won’t go into details. There are also political and cultural values.
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