Apollo

August 17, 2021•58 words

The Apollo programme cost $156 billion in 2019 dollars. Between 2001 and 2021, the U S spent between $800 billion and a trillion dollars¹ in Afghanistan.

One of these programmes put a human on the Moon: the other seems to have achieved, at best, nothing.

The Economist says 2 trillion dollars, so a trillion seems pretty conservative. ↩

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