So adjusted for inflation, NASA's budget is merely half what it was in the peak of the 1960's, whereas the statistic quoted makes it sound like it is 1/10th. C

So adjusted for inflation, NASA's budget is merely half what it was in the peak of the 1960's, whereas the statistic quoted makes it sound like it is 1/10th. Cherry-picking a peak date is a bit dubious though. If you average over the duration of the Apollo program, you get a number much closer to today. So most, maybe even all of the difference in budgetary size is due to increase in size of the rest of the federal budget.