It was a driver of technology that really helped make us the leading, driving economic force of the world," he said. You got the return on the investment for the next 30 years. "The investment that we made back in the 1960s was paid back. "We now seem to think it's too much to put 0.6 percent into the NASA budget," said Apollo 7 astronaut Walter Cunningham.
The investment, which consumed about 4 percent of the federal budget, was returned many times over, the astronauts said. The United States spent about $25 billion, in 1969 dollars, on the Apollo project. "Until we can really get a return on our investment on that particular project, then it was money wasted." It's almost a white elephant," Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell said. "We've spent a lot of money up there for almost nothing. After that, the United States plans to pay Russia to ferry crews to the outpost, which orbits 225 miles (360 km) above Earth.
NASA is finishing construction of the station, a $100 billion project of 16 nations, and plans to retire the shuttle fleet next year.
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