> The cost of Apollo program is $178 billion in today's money And the cost of Afghanistan/Iraq (in money) was $3,000 billion and yet, somehow, that project sur

> The cost of Apollo program is $178 billion in today's money And the cost of Afghanistan/Iraq (in money) was $3,000 billion and yet, somehow, that project survived for twenty years. I don't want to make light of the human tragedy that was Afghanistan/Iraq but I think it's interesting to put the Apollo spend into perspective.