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➯ NASA's Budget

In a just-completed study, we asked respondents what percentage of the national budget is allocated to NASA and to the Department of Defense, the Department of Education, the Department of Agriculture, and the Department of Health and Human Services, among other agencies. NASA’s allocation, on average, was estimated [by participants] to be approximately 24% of the national budget (the NASA allocation in 2007 was approximately 0.58% of the budget.)

Few topics are able to stir such rage and despair in me as the ridiculously tiny amount of resources we, as a species, contribute to space exploration, but the sheer amount of ignorance surrounding this issue is one of them.

Via Neven Mrgan

Link ➯ Thursday, January 28, 2010, 11:50 PM