Bad Astronomy on NASA's budget

mrgan:

The general public public perception of NASA is that it’s an inefficient, unnecessary drain on the US budget. How bad a drain? Bad Astronomy quotes The Space Review:

In a just-completed study, we asked respondents what percentage of the national budget is allocated to NASA … NASA’s allocation, on average, was estimated to be approximately 24% of the national budget (the NASA allocation in 2007 was approximately 0.58% of the budget.)

I wonder how many government programs you’d have to ask about before you ran out of percents.

So true.

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  1. brock reblogged this from mrgan and added:
    It saddens me that there are people who think NASA gets more money than the military, and that those people vote...
  2. thememegeneration reblogged this from mrgan and added:
    That’s not the main thrust of the article, but an important point to note as we look to cut discretionary spending.
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