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bookers555 t1_j1lrtxf wrote

Reply to comment by megjake in NASA to Get $25.4 Billion in 2023 Federal Budget by Corbulo2526

Not much, sadly. Even during the height of the space race, when the Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, not even half of the population in the US approved of the Apollo program.

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Ylossss t1_j1lyxxz wrote

This explains how some people felt about the Apollo program back then. https://youtu.be/goh2x_G0ct4

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bookers555 t1_j1lzuzx wrote

The thing is, it's the same kind of ignorance as today, people think space travel is exclusively about sending weird looking machines to space, and don't know of the technology we use all the time these days that wouldn't exist, or would be far less advanced if space exploration didn't force us to develop them.

Not to mention the money spent by NASA is negligible compared to the vast majority of government institutions. Lost count how many people think the 25 billion NASA gets every year would make a difference, when the US already spends upwards of a trillion on welfare.

Not to mention just for the sake of exploration, wish more people understood how fascinating it is that we are working towards letting humans live in places and environments that our bodies can't withstand, how interesting it is the act of overcoming our own nature.

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The_Masturbatician t1_j1murai wrote

it is about jobs and economics. this is the world we live in.

space tech stacks were invented to hurl nuke missles. thats what us was made for. billions n billions for weapons n jobs for nerds. your opinion is beyond child level naieve.

any funding to nasa is first b fore.ost to support those aims.

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quiet_locomotion t1_j1nf18r wrote

Fuckin Space Force got the same budget as NASA, and that doesn't include the NRO mission.

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