The U.S. government spent 17.2 billion dollars in 2008 according to this website ===> http://usgovernmentspending.com/classic#usgs302
"The federal government spent roughly $14 billion (B) on NASA in fiscal year 1999." http://www.richardb.us/nasa.html
NASA is a government agency, therefore funded by government tax, etc
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No, NASA has a budget limited by the Federal Government which can only spend so much money on blowing up the moon (a recent NASA mission that discovered water on the moon). Despite what the answer below says, NASA is limited to a strict budget imposed on them by the U.S. government. The effects of this can be easily seen in times of bad economical conditions. During the Great Depression, NASA was nearly closed down in an effort to save money.-----Yes, it is run by the government and the government can do what they want with NASA. Although if your talking about employees/ astronauts etc... I don't know. Sorry!-----
many many millons of dollars
because they suck and waste government money.
Yes. If NASA had been permitted to patent the tech it created, they would not have to spend one dime of taxpayer money. The spinoff of NASA is tremendous. You are reading these words on a descendant of NASA's DSKY computer, powered by a descendant of NASA's Integrated Circuit CPU, the first computer on a chip. If you aren't a waste of money, then neither is NASA!
No NASA is not finished , the government just does not want to support it anymore if you really want NASA to continue you would donate money to NASA because it now only runs on public donations.
The government pays them because it helps expand our knowledge of the universe, such as cool stuff in Oline, and NASA has found a new planet that humans can live on so it helps our life a lot so the government is paying the money for all the good things NASA has one for us.
A lot of money!
Nasa spends about 9,407,689,000
Nothing. NASA did not invent the Zero Gravity Pen. It was invented by Paul Fischer. It's a common urban legend.