An amount with eleven (!) zeros, that’s how much it costs to send a rocket to the moon: “But you get back every dollar you invest in space travel”

$100,000,000,000. That’s how much it costs (approximately) to send a rocket to the moon, as NASA is currently doing with Artemis II. Does that huge amount actually yield anything? And wouldn’t they be better off spending all that money on other things? Science expert Martijn Peters and astrophysicist Leen Decin explain. “We really don’t just shoot those billions into the air.”

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