They wouldn't just burn the money as rocket fuel - that money would be used to create jobs and buy materials. From Wikipedia: "At its peak, the Apollo program e

They wouldn't just burn the money as rocket fuel - that money would be used to create jobs and buy materials. From Wikipedia: "At its peak, the Apollo program employed 400,000 people and required the support of over 20,000 industrial firms and universities." That's some serious movement of money there.