That's completely false. NASA has a very large PR (public affairs) team, 114 employees in 2016. NASA also spends about ~4 million a year with external advertisi

That's completely false. NASA has a very large PR (public affairs) team, 114 employees in 2016. NASA also spends about ~4 million a year with external advertising and PR agencies. https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-17-711?source=ra https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-17-711?source=ra Also, the NASA budget ended up getting a big increase, and the education budget was not cut: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/03/planetary-science-wins-big-nasa-s-new-spending-plan https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/03/planetary-science-wi...