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From The Planetary Society: "None of NASA's budget is used for national defense or intelligence gathering programs; it is a civilian agency responsible for the
by its_ethan 2y ago
From The Planetary Society: "None of NASA's budget is used for national defense or intelligence gathering programs; it is a civilian agency responsible for the peaceful exploration of space"
Do you have evidence to the contrary you could share?
https://www.planetary.org/space-policy/nasa-budget#:~:text=None%20of%20NASA's%20budget%20is,and%20the%20National%20Reconnaissance%20Office https://www.planetary.org/space-policy/nasa-budget#:~:text=N....
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- abdullahkhalids 2y agoGP is hyperbolic but essentially correct. Generally, states will move as much as science and technology research that is not militarily sensitive to the public sphere - such as NASA. This is because many scientists won't work for the military directly [1], but will work on stuff that has both military and non-military applications. This science is then used by the military for their purposes. Many people have also written quite a lot about how the race to the moon was primarily funded because it was a military domination competition. Once the USSR decisively lost, the US stopped doing that expensive science. A good overview of the geopolitics of space exploration and research is the book Dark Skies by Daniel Deudney [2]. [1] Combination of ethical reasons and having to do security checks and your freedoms somewhat restricted. [2] https://global.oup.com/academic/product/dark-skies-9780190903343?cc=ca&lang=en& https://global.oup.com/academic/product/dark-skies-978019090...