Or is it badly spent? Long-time readers know where I stand on the issue.
5 thoughts on “Is The NASA Budget Too Small?”
It’s both.
Given all the moronic ways this country finds to spend money we could certainly afford to put more than 0.7% of that federal spending toward space exploration.
But given that NASA can’t accomplish a fraction of what it should be able to with the funds it does receive I’d find it hard to argue that heir budget should be increased.
NASA’s budget should remain as is but a bigger share of it, much much bigger, should go to “Centennial Challenges” type programs.
Peopled space definitely warrants a much greater budget, but will NASA ever demonstrate itself worthy of a budget increase in this regard ever again?
Presumably the NASA budget will continue to decrease until the taxpayer gets value for money.
“we could certainly afford to put more than 0.7% of that federal spending toward space exploration.”
Why would a country want to put such a sizeable chunk of cash into “exploration” when it doesnt have _any_ feasible plans to make any use of any of the explored places ?
The entire National Science Foundation has like $6.5B budget, and it has direct traceable benefits to population.
NSF and NASA budgets are FAR out of proportion.
You don’t give someone a raise when they are not performing their job properly, be it NASA or the $7.50hr fry cook.
“Reader” you need to change your moniker as you obviously didn’t “read” the part of my post beginning with “But given…”.
It’s both.
Given all the moronic ways this country finds to spend money we could certainly afford to put more than 0.7% of that federal spending toward space exploration.
But given that NASA can’t accomplish a fraction of what it should be able to with the funds it does receive I’d find it hard to argue that heir budget should be increased.
NASA’s budget should remain as is but a bigger share of it, much much bigger, should go to “Centennial Challenges” type programs.
Peopled space definitely warrants a much greater budget, but will NASA ever demonstrate itself worthy of a budget increase in this regard ever again?
Presumably the NASA budget will continue to decrease until the taxpayer gets value for money.
“we could certainly afford to put more than 0.7% of that federal spending toward space exploration.”
Why would a country want to put such a sizeable chunk of cash into “exploration” when it doesnt have _any_ feasible plans to make any use of any of the explored places ?
The entire National Science Foundation has like $6.5B budget, and it has direct traceable benefits to population.
NSF and NASA budgets are FAR out of proportion.
You don’t give someone a raise when they are not performing their job properly, be it NASA or the $7.50hr fry cook.
“Reader” you need to change your moniker as you obviously didn’t “read” the part of my post beginning with “But given…”.