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.
Expert hypermiler Wayne Gerdes set a new Guinness World Record for fuel economy in a 2013 Volkswagen Passat TDI, a diesel-powered midsize sedan. The Passat used just 104.94 gallons of fuel for an average fuel economy of 77.99 miles per gallon. That beats the old record, established in 2009 by an Australian couple. Over their 9,505-mile trip, Helen and John Taylor averaged 67.90 miles per gallon in a 2009 Volkswagen Jetta TDI.