>How exactly are you measuring "return" in this case? it would have been cheaper to send the astronauts to the moon without returning them to earth more serio

>How exactly are you measuring "return" in this case? it would have been cheaper to send the astronauts to the moon without returning them to earth more seriously, the work that went into developing microelectronics returned a lot to the economy. the human genome project has only just started returning its benefits the R&D for manned moon missions didn't have much in the way of spinoffs.