[kvanbrunt2]

Although i don’t believe it was faked. It was the most disappointing event long term. The money spent produced very little and to this day there is not much going on spacewise. or maybe that was the benefit. space the final frontier insurmountable.

[smokingfrog]

You’re kidding, right?

[golux]

The money spent produced very little

Are you kidding? NASA's work launched a jaw-dropping amount of mechanical, military, scientific and technological advancements... Including but hardly limited to the thing you were just typing on. And more! Climatological, propagational, navigational, communications... It never ends. Check it out, FRiend!

[Rockingham]

Not so. The Moon landing was a major accomplishment and demonstrated American scientific and technological capabilities. This helped to win the Cold War more or less peacefully and continues to support US superpower status and the dollar's role as the world's trade and reserve currency. This has tangible benefit in that the US is able to finance the vast deficits caused by its social spending -- thus providing older Americans with Medicare and Social Security on generous terms.

Moreover, within a generation or two, the exploitation of resources on the Moon and asteroids will begin to benefit Earth's economy. Helium 3 from the Moon's surface may be the key to practical fusion power generation, while asteroid mining could provide an abundance of rare metals. And it will have begun with the Apollo program, just as the European settlement of America began with Columbus.

[Nifster]

Absolutely not true. The space program cost about one penny of every tax dollar paid. For that you received improvements in computers, a rapidly developing IC environment, heart telemetry, advancements in materials, introduction of new communications, among many others

[Cvengr]

The Space program enjoyed about a &:1 payback in technological gains.

Think about it the next time you use styrofoam.