If you want the American public to increase funding for NASA instead of cutting its budget and spending more on wars, maybe it's good to let them run up the sco

If you want the American public to increase funding for NASA instead of cutting its budget and spending more on wars, maybe it's good to let them run up the scoreboard and slam the football on the field. It is hard to convince the public times of economic trouble to fund missions like this is felt out of fear or national pride. In an ideal would people would support it for science alone, but we don't live in that world.