According to salary surveys conducted by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), mechanical engineering graduates with a master's degree earned an average starting salary of $66,158 in 2009 and $69,954 in 2010.
There was more fuel on-board for the auxiliary propulsion systems and for the various modules, but the above was the fuel used to get the payload into space and to the moon. That's a total of 3,787,350 liters of fuel, or just over 1 million gallons of liquid fuel with a fuse! Wow! Of interest: Europe is preparing plans to join the U.S. in building a manned spaceship that will take men and women to the moon.
The Apollo spacecraft that went to the Moon in 1969 through 1972 took about 3 days to get to the Moon. If we had faster spaceships, it would take less time. If we could accelerate at one gravity of acceleration (32 feet per second, per second) halfway to the Moon and then slow down at the same rate, it would take one hour to get to the Moon. But we currently cannot build spacecraft that carry enough fuel to do that.