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Apollo vs. Artemis Spending

Line chart showing inflation adjusted annual spending on NASA's Apollo and Artemis projects in years since project start.

As of its first crewed launch attempt, NASA has spent approximately $105 billion on Artemis and its related SLS and Orion programs since their inception. In contrast, Apollo cost $309 billion over 13 years. Inflation adjustment 2025 dollars via NASA's New Start Index. Full dataset available on The Planetary Society's Human Spaceflight Program Budgets tracking dataset.

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