If you think there's a long term interest in advancing space flight in general, and human space flight in particular, then yes. They directly and indirectly fun

If you think there's a long term interest in advancing space flight in general, and human space flight in particular, then yes. They directly and indirectly fund a ton of science around that, heavy lift rockets, and also a lot of aviation stuff that is not directly related to space but impacts things like research on more efficient faster air travel. It also gets into aviation medicine, etc. NASA in general is a decent bargain. It's a lot of cutting edge science and engineering expertise for not a lot of money compared to the DoD/DARPA. Cutting it is part of the general national suicide agenda we seem to be in of trying to hollow out all the ways America actually still does lead the world in order to bring back lower value lower margin things America did well in the 1950s.