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Correct it for inflation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA Also, consider the fact that congress alloca
by zerohp 14y ago
Correct it for inflation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA
Also, consider the fact that congress allocates the money going to individual project, not just the agency as a whole. NASA is not doing just fine.
- nessus42 14y agoAlso, during the W administration much of the money for real science was redirected towards a manned mission to Mars. This caused terrible financial woes for the department I worked at at MIT for many years that does X-ray astronomy (The Center for Space Research). Quite a few people were laid off, including me, due to the CSR not being able to get the science funding from NASA it always had been able to get previously.
- astrodust 14y agoIt's a classic anti-science move of forcing them to commit to an impossible project and then later lay into them for not making any progress and cut funding even more severely.
- adventureful 14y agoI saw the inflation calculation in the Wiki tables. You could even argue that inflation calculation is low, and that inflation has been far worse given the price of gold / oil / housing over the last 30 years. My point was: NASA is doing just fine. They're fortunate to still be getting that much money year in year out. It's a lot of money.