Apollo consumed 2.5% of gdp every year for a decade. That’s a massively expensive prestige project. Considering that the soviets concentrated on building spac

Apollo consumed 2.5% of gdp every year for a decade. That’s a massively expensive prestige project. Considering that the soviets concentrated on building space stations, yielding hardware that is still in use for active scientific purposes I would argue it wasn’t a good way to spend that value.