The original answer was 50 billion dollars a year. This could not be more wrong. NASA keeps their budget up-to-date on their website. This means, you can view their current budget (right now it is 2012 and their 2012 budget is posted) and you can plainly see they are not consuming 50 billion dollars a year. They actually use closer to 1.5 billion and use it very carefully.
Did you know, by federal law, all discoveries and innovations found through NASA must be considered completely free to public? For example, it is legal to re-produce memory foam, an invention of NASA's as well as many, many other innovations we all use every day. Your tax dollars finally pay for something worthwhile, things you use everyday.
Putting NASA's budget into terms most people can relate to, out of every dollar collected in taxes, NASA receives 1/2 of a penny. As of 2012, Obama has cancelled the moon program, cancelled the space shuttle, cut every other program for NASA and has cut their budget from $50 billion down to $18 billion.
because there was not enough money to fund it all
Funding NASA's spinoffs allows for the transfer of technology and knowledge developed for space exploration to benefit society through commercial applications, stimulating innovation and economic growth. It also helps to maximize the return on investment in NASA's research and development efforts by creating tangible advancements that can improve everyday life.
To explore space, the last frontier. Of course, nowadays we as a country don't care about national honor very much, so it won't matter to most if we aren't the ones to discover new planets, galaxies, and possibly even life forms or habitable planets.
NASA's budget comes from taxpayer funds allocated by the US government. As a government agency, NASA does not earn money in the traditional sense, but rather receives funding to support its research, projects, and missions.
No - NASA paid for the construction and launches of both Voyager probes, and continues to fund the missions as they make their way out of the solar system into interstellar space.
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.
because there was not enough money to fund it all
Funding NASA's spinoffs allows for the transfer of technology and knowledge developed for space exploration to benefit society through commercial applications, stimulating innovation and economic growth. It also helps to maximize the return on investment in NASA's research and development efforts by creating tangible advancements that can improve everyday life.
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To explore space, the last frontier. Of course, nowadays we as a country don't care about national honor very much, so it won't matter to most if we aren't the ones to discover new planets, galaxies, and possibly even life forms or habitable planets.
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NASA's budget comes from taxpayer funds allocated by the US government. As a government agency, NASA does not earn money in the traditional sense, but rather receives funding to support its research, projects, and missions.
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