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With its annual budget of $18.724 billion maybe? Seriously, where does that money go?

• MichaelAO 14y ago
  I watched a talk by Peter Diamandis where he said that around 90% of the costs (for a NASA rocket) is in labor. By 2020, we should be sending people, not another robot.
• natep 14y ago
  For a start... * Operating their current missions http://www.nasa.gov/missions/current/index.html http://www.nasa.gov/missions/current/index.html * Designing and building future missions http://www.nasa.gov/missions/future/index.html http://www.nasa.gov/missions/future/index.html * Public outreach/education
  • htf 14y ago
    Thanks, that's a good list. However, one would be hard pressed to convince people to voluntarily fund this to the tune of 20 billion dollars a year.
    • sdfadsfa 14y ago
      But we have no problem spending trillions of dollars on wars and on bailouts. Awesome. Stu_pid meets mor_on.
• mkr-hn 14y ago
  http://www.nasa.gov/news/budget/index.html http://www.nasa.gov/news/budget/index.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA It costs a lot to engineer and operate things that work in space.