NASA started out as a public works project, one of its explicit goals was uplifting (my word) the South, and after Apollo it became almost entirely a public wor

NASA started out as a public works project, one of its explicit goals was uplifting (my word) the South, and after Apollo it became almost entirely a public works project. So that $5 billion a year employing N zillion people became the real goal, not what it was ostensibly about.