That's not the issue at all. If you look at the historical budget of NASA[1] it has a very low correlation with Republican presidents[2]. The main issue is tha

That's not the issue at all. If you look at the historical budget of NASA[1] it has a very low correlation with Republican presidents[2]. The main issue is that they get a lot of misdirected funding that's mainly allocated as a function of short-term political interests, and that's an entirely bipartisan issue in the United States. 1. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/NASA-Budget-Federal.svg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/NASA-Budg... 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_Unite...