[KevinDavis]

For other space news go to: http://www.spacetoday.net
For a list of Private Space Companies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_private_spaceflight_companies

[OldDeckHand]

The cost of the 13-year Apollo program was somewhere in the vicinity of $150 billion, in today's dollars. That's roughly $11.5 billion a year. $11.5 billion a year is just over .3% of our current annual budget.

The dividends from such an endeavor would probably triple or quadruple the principle investment in less than a decade. John Kennedy had his faults, but the space program was one of the wisest Presidential initiatives of the 20th Century. The technology developed during that program is the basis for many of the technologies that lead our country and our economy today.