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[luke_s]

Well, according to wikipedia [1] we could have run over 8 Apollo programs for that cost.

[1] : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program#Program_cost

[luriel → luke_s]

Imagine what Elon Musk could do with that kind of money.

Either terraforming mars or we might make it to Alpha Centauri by the next century.

[darkestkhan → luriel]

You forgot about commercialization of fusion ;) and hyperloop... and in his case we would additionally have permanent space colony, on Moon, Mars, deep space and one to be created in Venus ;)

[Gustomaximus → luke_s]

1970's dollars are not the same as todays. Further down on the Wikipedia page:

> In 2009, NASA held a symposium on project costs which presented an estimate of the Apollo program costs in 2005 dollars as roughly $170 billion.

[jfoutz → Gustomaximus]

if we take a moment, and divide 1.5 trillion by 170 billion, we see that we could afford over 8 complete Apollo programs with 1.5 trillion dollars.

[Gustomaximus → jfoutz]

Thanks, I stand corrected.

[ktizo → Gustomaximus]

as roughly $170 billion.

So multiply by nine then.