Why is nasa still wasting money on the apollo project?
Support for the Apollo commitment was not unanimous, either in Congress or among the public. The public opposition most often questioned the wisdom of spending so much money on space when so many domestic problems confronted the country. Those who spoke for science often shared this concern, but their special objection was Apollo’s distortion of priorities within the space program. One unidentified astronomer was reported to have complained to Senator Paul Douglas of Illinois that the space program was becoming “an engineering binge instead of a scientific project Sources: http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4214/ch1-4.
