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What's going on with NASA funding?
In the Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 budget, the administration proposed to
flatline NASA’s total budget for the next five years, which essentially
cuts the budget of the agency, since the total amount does not grow with
inflation.
The Planetary Society is in the middle of a long-term campaign to
reverse these proposed cuts. We've organized our members to contact
politicians and staffers at the national budget agency to express their
support.
o Write your congressional representatives and tell them that planetary
exploration matters.
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Are you advocating a tax rise? I love a good healthy tax rise.
Nope. Let us shift 0.5% of the defense budget to NASA.
Are you advocating a tax rise? I love a good healthy tax rise.Nope. Let us shift 0.5% of the defense budget to NASA.
The aerospace industry will whine just long enough for their defense contracts to be replaced by NASA contracts.
Not an either/or, but the defense budget stays fat so the military-industrial complex can keep churning out technology the Pentagon doesn't want, and the military doesn't need, so they can keep lining their pockets with sweet government money. It would take some time to adjust lining their pockets with money by building things the government actually wants.
Lots of weird things are matters of national defense.
Shifting the contracts to NASA projects would be a good thing. NASA innovation has had huge returns for our economy and standard of living.
Safety grooving was a result of NASA research, which has reduced accidents and injury at airports, highways, swimming pools, meat packing plants, etc. California has seen a 98 percent decline in accidents due to wet pavement in areas where this technology has been applied.
There is going to come a time when we will have wished we had spent much, much more on space tech than we were and are spending. Hopefully we do not have to loose a city to realize that.