The fact that you think scientific research, and NASA specifically, are driving our budgetary shortfalls shows your own bias. You don't cut government budgets

The fact that you think scientific research, and NASA specifically, are driving our budgetary shortfalls shows your own bias. You don't cut government budgets because it's intrinsically righteous, you do it to save money that you can then spend on other things. You could cut the NASA budget to zero and it wouldn't get us out of our current fiscal hole. And it is incontrovertible from any reading of the history that government support is the reason we have modern air travel, the internet, and GPS, among many other facets of modern life. There is no compelling argument I've heard that the private sector can or would develop such things on their own, unless you're arguing that we should be completely reliant on the occasional eccentric billionaire having an interest in something scientific and setting up a foundation.