Only one NASA Apollo mission??

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I started making this video to go over a common thing Moon landing deniers like to pull out of their pocket and that was the "lost telemetry" catchphrase, but it started turning into something simpler that I wanted to touch on.... that of the fact that way more people than I originally thought didn't know there were multiple Apollo missions. That and many people believe that the Moon landing was a shotgun one-off mission where all the eggs were put into one basket. That was hardly the case.

Apollo 11 was just the first Moon landing. Many people jump to the front to scream "NASA lost the Moon mission tapes" are awkwardly unaware that there were a total of SIX different moon landings, starting with Apollo 11, then 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17.

Those weren't even the total number of mission that made it to Lunar orbit. Apollo 8, 10, 13 and 14 all orbited the Moon, but did not land due to being either equipment testing prior to landing or equipment issues.

The buildup to the moon landings spanned nine years of massive government investment and funding, starting in 1960. In 1958 NASA's budget was just 0.1% of the the Federal Budget. In 1959 it made a slight jump to 0.2%. The year leading up to President Kennedy's speech about going to the Moon, NASA's budget made another slight jump to 0.5%. By 1965, four years prior to the the first Moon landing, NASA budget jumped to a whopping 4.41% of the Federal Budget. By today's standard that would equal $270 billion dollars.

What was NASA's budget for 2022? $24 Billion. Yeah, just one eleventh of what it was during the Apollo program. The Apollo program wasn't just a neat side project. It was a massively monumental investment. If people are wondering why NASA's latest Moon endeavor is taking so long, that's part of the issue. 2023 saw an increase of just $1.4 billion and 2024 is set to see a proposed $27.2 billion dollar budget... still just one tenth of that in 1965.

To those who say NASA is massively over-budgeted and they money could be better used for other things, let make a quick comparison. NASA's budget for 2023 was $25.4 billion. What was the Defense departments budget for 2023? $797.7 billion dollar. That's enough to fund the NASA's budget thirty-one times. If money is the issue, you're looking in the wrong place.

On the Saturn V, the Saturn V wasn't even the first rocket. NASA first tested the Saturn I launch vehicle which would later evolve into the Saturn V. The Saturn 1 comprised of 10 different tests with the first orbital flight happening January 29th 1964 with SA-5. After the Saturn 1 tests NASA then upgraded the Saturn 1 into the Saturn 1B configuration with an additional four more test launches starting February 26th 1966.

So, yeah. There was way more to it than just one Moon shot. Plus, many are also unaware that Artemis 1, NASA's latest Moon mission rocket, completed and orbit around the Moon and successfully returned to Earth just last year. Staying up to date tends to help tremendously. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-3NdRXDPCk