What's the biggest Kickstarter on record so far? Keep in mind that, while tiny compared to the total US budget, NASA's budget is still $18 billion/year. Edit:

What's the biggest Kickstarter on record so far? Keep in mind that, while tiny compared to the total US budget, NASA's budget is still $18 billion/year. Edit: While not a Kickstarter, I think Star Citizen might be the crowd-funding winner. Even they have "only" raised $150 million so far. That's a lot of money for a space video game. It's not a lot of money for actually going to space.