Rusty Barton wrote in
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On 17 Jul 2003 00:30:59 GMT, "Jorge R. Frank"
wrote:

Cool! Where'd you find the 1958-61 numbers? I've only been able to
find back to 1962:

NASA Budget info 1958 - 1961:

http://www.richardb.us/nasa.htm - near bottom of page
http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4102/ch7.htm Table 7-1 "Expenditures"
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2002/digest2001/tables/dt035.asp - Federal

Thanks!

But what do we have for
around $ 370-billion? 3 old shuttles, 2 heaps of shuttle fragments,
1 incomplete space station,

And what did we get for Apollo? Two lawn-ornament Saturn Vs, several
museum-piece CMs, a virtual scrap-heap of spent S-IBs and S-ICs on the
Atlantic floor, and 800 lbs of rocks? Sure, that's a very utilitarian way
of looking at Apollo, but it's equivalent to the view of the shuttle that
you give.

a few planetary missions

A few? During the period you give (1970-2003), we got two Venus orbiters
(one carrying several atmospheric probes), several Mars orbiters and
landers, three Mars rovers, flybys of all the other planets except Pluto,
and orbiters of Jupiter and Saturn. We also got the Great Observatories -
Hubble, Compton, Chandra, and the upcoming SIRTF.

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JRF

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