美国总统肯尼迪于1961年初上台后,就将1962财政年度的空间活动发展费用由艾森豪威尔原定的20亿美元增加到30亿。在今年初提出的1963财政年度预算中,又把这一项费用增加了83%还多,竟高达55.5亿美元,为同一预算中联邦教育费或公共卫生费的三倍半到四 After U.S. President Kennedy came to power in early 1961, the cost of developing space activities in fiscal year 1962 increased from 2 billion U.S. dollars originally planned by Eisenhower to 3 billion U.S. dollars. In the budget for the 1963 fiscal year proposed earlier this year, the cost of this item was raised by more than 83% to as much as 5.55 billion U.S. dollars, which was three and a half to four times the federal budget for education or public health in the same budget