if nasa funding had remainded at apollo 11 rate, even without
inflation increase we could of had a permanent station, moon base,
near earth asteroid human landings, mars, and beyond

the vietnam war sucked lots of money away from nasa and other stuff.
LBJs great society spending caused increased federal spending and tax
increase, which helped discourage couples from having more kids. the
baby boom became the baby bust which is the root cause of the coming
social security crisis.