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700B for DOD, versus 8B NASA. 87x difference. If NASA would have 87x more money, by now we would have a Martian base and most likely missions where civilians co
by joering2 14y ago
700B for DOD, versus 8B NASA. 87x difference. If NASA would have 87x more money, by now we would have a Martian base and most likely missions where civilians could buy a ticket and fly there for a honeymoon.
- JVIDEL 14y agoYeah funny how much we spend on stuff that blows up (or never does because it's never used and we have to spend even more billions dismantling them).
- cowkingdeluxe 14y agoBut at the same time the USA spends more money on space programs than all other countries combined.
- jemeshsu 14y agoGuess this is because no other country has that level of expertise of space program like US.
- jcnnghm 14y agoYour causality presumption may be reversed.
- huhtenberg 14y agoIt could simply mean that running space programs in the USA is far more costly than in other countries. Someone did say that NASA of the recent age is less about research and more about massive employment.
- FrojoS 14y agoI would say, the price difference adjusted budget of NASA is also much bigger than that of any other nation. Do you see the Russians walking on the moon or driving nuclear cars on Mars?
- ck2 14y agoTSA gets more money than NASA! (and TSA is just a tiny part of "homeland security (theater)" )
- rbanffy 14y agoTo be fair, a lot of money that went into ICBM research ended up being applied by NASA. But I agree with you. If only we could convince the five top military spenders to cut back just a little, we'd be terraforming Mars and Venus by the end of the week. ;-)