Program Cost
In January 1969, NASA prepared for the US Congress an estimate of the costs for projects Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo (to the first manned Moon landing). This estimate gave the cost of Project Mercury as $392.6 million, broken down as follows:
- Spacecraft: $135.3 million
- Launch vehicles: $82.9 million
- Operations: $49.3 million
- Tracking operations and equipment: $71.9 million
- Facilities: $53.2 million
In 2010, The Space Review estimated the cost of Mercury as $1.6 billion in inflation-adjusted dollars.
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