>The ironic thing is that Congress cancelled the Apollo program and approved the Space Shuttle program and that was even more expensive (in $/kg to LEO terms).

>The ironic thing is that Congress cancelled the Apollo program and approved the Space Shuttle program and that was even more expensive (in $/kg to LEO terms). Highly relevant: "Human Space Exploration: The Next 50 Years" by Michael Griffin, NASA Administrator, March 2007. He wrote that had the agency continued using Apollo-Saturn instead of developing the Space Shuttle, "we would be on Mars today <https://np.reddit.com/r/space/comments/5324ud/human_space_exploration_the_next_50_years_by/ https://np.reddit.com/r/space/comments/5324ud/human_space_ex...>