That is just lie. Source says that entire "Spacecraft Development" for entire Apollo was just $52,000,000. I bet development and testing cost was merged into hardware cost. Plus many expensive parts were reusable (launch pads, testing facilities)...
You're misreading the chart -- a bit farther down, there are lines giving a ~$3.8 billion total cost for "command and service modules", and ~$2.2 billion for "lunar module". And those figures don't include spacecraft systems which have their own line items (e.g., "guidance and navigation"), or the cost of the rockets that launched the spacecraft.
The "spacecraft development" line you're looking at includes only charges for 1962, while the program was still in its earliest phases, most likely before mission mode (and the separation of command and lunar modules) had even been decided.
And you can multiply all those figures by about 7 to correct for inflation and give you the rough cost in today's dollars.
The "spacecraft development" line you're looking at includes only charges for 1962, while the program was still in its earliest phases, most likely before mission mode (and the separation of command and lunar modules) had even been decided.
And you can multiply all those figures by about 7 to correct for inflation and give you the rough cost in today's dollars.
Apollo was hugely expensive.