Cost
From 1964 until 1973, a total of $6.5 billion ($46.56 billion present day) was appropriated for the Saturn V, with the maximum being in 1966 with $1.2 billion ($8.6 billion present day).
One of the main reasons for the cancellation of the Apollo program was the cost. In 1966, NASA received its biggest budget of US$4.5 billion, about 0.5 percent of the GDP of the United States at that time. In 1969, the cost of a Saturn V including launch was US $ 185 million (inflation adjusted US$ 1.17 billion in 2012).
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