moondoggle

noun

1. (US, colloquial, derogatory)Efforts to transport people to the Moon, regarded as a useless waste of resources.

   “We are virtually abandoning the first Outer Space area through which military attacks may be launched, to spend billions on a nonmilitary moondoggle — the attempt to put a man on the moon.”

   “He stated that “as long as James E. Webb is the Administrator of NASA, I am not voting another dollar for this moondoggle. […]”

   “During the years of Vietnam and the moondoggle the balance of Pentagon prime contracts shifted sharply to the Southern Rim, with the percentages mounting every year, […]”