If you mean first disaster, then the Apollo 1 fire would be regarded as the first. Three astronauts died in fire during a launch pad pre-flight test.
Short answer: No. Long answer: No it was not.
Apollo 11
Since its birth in 1958 NASA has spent 806.7 billion American tax dollars.This must be said because NASAs ultimate goal is space exploration. A civilian by the name Greg Olsen paid 20 million dollars in 2005 for a stay on the international space station.The company that arranges these flights "Space Adventures"says it would cost twice as much today.
As soon as NASA landed on the moon back in 1969, the general public started getting less and less interested in space exploration. The logic behind the thinking was that they have beaten the Russians to the moon, why continue to invest money into the program? Not long after the first moon landing of Apollo 11, congress started cutting at NASAs budget and cancelled Apollo 18-to 21. This is just a comment but they acually sent Apollo 18 to the moon and it never returned!
If you mean first disaster, then the Apollo 1 fire would be regarded as the first. Three astronauts died in fire during a launch pad pre-flight test.
The Mercury program
Short answer: No. Long answer: No it was not.
Apollo 11
I guess you weren't aware that you pay for it, along with the rest of the country. Hmm odd.Answer:NASA is a Government agency funded by the US government. So we the taxpayers pay for what other countries don't contribute. (Canada built and paid for the Canada arm.)
alan shephard
Total budget varies from year to year but is in the neighborhood of $16 billion
NASAS voyonger 2 was the first to visit neptune
2.
there where nine atsronuts :)
Due to limitation in budget, the NASA is going to quit manufacturing Space Shuttles and again start making ordinary rockets.
There were 2 astronauts on each Project Gemini mission.