India's moon mission budget ($145 million) was 11 cents per Indian person (1.353 billion). It was 0.02% of a single year's expenditure ($725 billion) by the In

India's moon mission budget ($145 million) was 11 cents per Indian person (1.353 billion). It was 0.02% of a single year's expenditure ($725 billion) by the Indian federal government-- spread out over multiple years. It amounted to approximately 0.005% of India's GDP ($2.7 trillion). And the money spent didn't disappear it went into infrastructure, manufacturing, and other mostly domestic pockets. The only money that disappeared from the economy was the value of the fuel burned and materials not returned to earth from space. Those 11 cents per person (well, let's call it 10 because the value of the craft on the moon in pieces) are floating around the economy, ready to be spent on water supplies.