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...even after you adjust for inflation:Manhattan Project (first atomic bomb): $24 billion (2008 dollars)Project Apollo (man on the moon): $135 billion (2005 dollars)*A.I.G. Bailout (revised): $150 billion (2008 dollars)* Update: it looks like the CPI has increased 11% since 2005 (Jan-Jan). So we should perhaps count the 13-year Apollo program as $150 billion in 2008 dollars.[Note: to make the point more painfully clear, the U.S. government has spent as much money bailing out one company as it did to put a man on the moon during a 13-year program...and NASA wasn't exactly known for its thrift. W.M.]