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Where is the money going to come from?
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mb writes...Well, we sell the shuttle fleet for scrap ....; } > Really, NASA's budget should be increased! In 1969, at the height of the Apollo Moon landing program NASA received about four cents out of each dollar in the national budget. Today, that is down to just over one cent. One thin copper plated zinc penny!
NASA's budget for 1991 is $13.8 billion, or 1.10% of the Federal Budget of $1.25 trillion. This means it costs an average taxpayer about $69 per year, or $5.78 per month. Not a huge sum.
Really we can fund huge entitlement programs. We can fund wars. We can fund all sorts of worthless programs. when we fund space programs we get back much more than the original cost of that program.