The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, better known as NASA, has received billions of dollars of American taxpayers' money since it was founded in 1958.

A recent headline-grabbing project saw NASA deliberately crash a spacecraft into an asteroid to the tune of $325 million. And at 1.47am EST today (16 November), the space agency kicked off its Artemis exploration program with the launch of its most powerful rocket ever: the SLS-Orion. The 322-feet-tall crewless rocket has now begun a three-week test flight around the moon, 50 years on from the final Apollo moon mission. The cost? At least $37 billion so far.

Read on as we explore the truly cosmic scale of NASA's spending over more than six decades, and investigate what the money's been spent on. All dollar amounts in US dollars.