On October 1st, 1958 the United States Congress formed NASA, which stands for National Aeronautical and Space Administration. NASA replaced NACA . The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was a U.S. federal agency founded on March 3, 1915 to undertake, promote, and institutionalize aeronautical research. On October 1, 1958 the agency was dissolved, and its assets and personnel transferred to the newly created National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). NACA was pronounced as individual letters, rather than as an acronym. NASA was borne out of United States concerns following the Russian (then USSR) launch and orbit of the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1. Sputnik 1, launched by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957. This triggered the Space Race between the Soviet Union and the United States. The reason there was a race for space is due to the vast military dominance associated with holding the high ground during a battle. Whoever controlled outer space held the highest ground possible. NASA's budget is reviewed and administered annually by the the United States Congress. (Added text concerning NACA and Sputnick 1 was taken from Wikipedia.)
They should not!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NO! Funding is just being limited to certain programs and missions. Yall meannn?
Currently funding is being directed on other things
Popular support for the program waned and the US Congress responded by cutting back on NASA's funding.
Well like NASA to get them started off the US Government may of given them funding. But there a company. And they will of course make money. But the taxes you have in the US a small % may likely go to NASA
If you are speaking of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as the space program, then neither Presidents John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson passed funding for NASA. NASA started in July 1958 with President Dwight Eisenhower passing the bill that allows funding for NASA with funding which was in June 1958.
NASA is an entity of the government, and therefore is solely funded by it. NASA is not being shut down, but its funding will probably be cut.
They should not!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Then They Wouldn't Receive Funding Any Longer.
Currently funding is being directed on other things
NO! Funding is just being limited to certain programs and missions. Yall meannn?
Tax money, just like all other NASA projects
Popular support for the program waned and the US Congress responded by cutting back on NASA's funding.
NASA planned to go to Mars and have a permanent moon base by 1980's but Nixon cancelled the program in the 1970's. My guess is that all the NASA funding was diverted to and wasted on the Vietnam War. There's always plenty of funding for war, never enough for scientific endeavors...
They did not so much give it up as the program came to and end and further funding was not forthcoming.
It was paid from out of the NASA budget. So, finally, the funds come from the US tax payers.
Probably to formulate theories relating to the survival of microbes in the vacuum and coldness of space.