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.
Astronomer Fred Hoyle was the first to point out that if you could drive a car upwards at 95km/h (60mph), it would only take about an hour to get into space. To get to the Moon would take a little longer though, since it's 400,000km (250,000 miles) away-around 10 times the circumference of the Earth. So it would take as long as driving around the world 10 times-just under six months. Your only real problem (apart from the lack of air for your lungs and for burning the petrol) would be finding a garage to refuel-and that has a loo!