In 1967, The first Saturn V rocket carrying the unmanned Apollo 4 spacecraft was successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center.

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The flights are expensive (at the height of its Apollo-era pomp, NASA was sucking in around 4.4% of total government spending) and dangerous, and the benefits are hard to measure.

ECONOMIST: The space shuttle

Among the largest underlying components of QLD, in trading today Altera Corp. ( NASD: ALTR) is down about 0.8%, Apollo Group, Inc. ( NASD: APOL) is off about 1.4%, and Applied Materials, Inc. ( NASD: AMAT) is lower by about 0.7%.

FORBES: Noteworthy ETF Outflows: QLD, ALTR, APOL, AMAT