"moondoggle" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1963, Frank L. Kluckhohn, What's wrong with U. S. foreign policy?, page 9:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1971, Thomas P. Murphy, Science, Geopolitics, and Federal Spending, page 372:",
          "text": "He stated that “as long as James E. Webb is the Administrator of NASA, I am not voting another dollar for this moondoggle. […]",
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          "ref": "1976, Roger E. Alcaly, David Mermelstein, The Fiscal crisis of American cities, page 170:",
          "text": "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, […]",
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        "Efforts to transport people to the Moon, regarded as a useless waste of resources."
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        "(US, colloquial, derogatory) Efforts to transport people to the Moon, regarded as a useless waste of resources."
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