"We choose to go to the moon! We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard..."
According to the Office of Management and Budget, NASA's 2014 budget was $17.65 billion. Total spending on the military of the United States in 2013 was $610.1 billion. That means that NASA received the equivalent of 2.8% of our "on the books" (e.g. no emergency allocations) military spending or 0.492% of the total Federal budget.
Meanwhile, NASA delivers pictures of planets (no apologies, Pluto is a planet) so far away we can only barely see them from Earth and has provided the technology to park multiple upon multiple communication devices in orbit and around our solar system.
I can only imagine what they'd do with over $600 billion each year.
According to the Office of Management and Budget, NASA's 2014 budget was $17.65 billion. Total spending on the military of the United States in 2013 was $610.1 billion. That means that NASA received the equivalent of 2.8% of our "on the books" (e.g. no emergency allocations) military spending or 0.492% of the total Federal budget.
Meanwhile, NASA delivers pictures of planets (no apologies, Pluto is a planet) so far away we can only barely see them from Earth and has provided the technology to park multiple upon multiple communication devices in orbit and around our solar system.
I can only imagine what they'd do with over $600 billion each year.