(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Honestly, I think the answer is quite clear. I could type out all of the information and statistics, but I think that this video just about sums up the importance of NASA. (I also recommend part 2)



I am creating this thread because I am curious if anyone here disagrees, and why they disagree. I don't see any reason not to raise NASA's budget from 4/10 of a penny to one penny on a tax dollar, to an individual person I doubt an extra 6/10 of a penny would be noticed.

It would really be a shame to see NASA die out someday due to lack of funding, and I hope that someday NASA's budget will return to the point where they are able to fund missions to the moon, missions to mars, and advance deeper and deeper into space.

We haven't been to the moon since 1972... In fact, the last trip may have been the most important as it actually had a trained scientist on board. If you completely killed all of Nasa's budget you only cut 0.5% of the budget. You can't shut yourself out of the universe when we make up less than 0.0000000001% of it and have never explored beyond our solar system. If you want to talk about wasting money look at the US's budget and how it operates. We are just about the god of defense spending.

Space colonization isn't mythological anymore.

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It's ridiculous to say that NASA even plays a role in the national debt. You cannot shut yourself out of the universe like that. I believe strongly that colonizing other planets is going to be a must for human survival down the road ahead. Building space stations on the moon, mars etc.

The problem with the debt has nothing to do with NASA. NASA is money well spend in comparison to the the entitlements that are given to millions of people who chose not to go to school and get a job, and feel that they are entitled to whatever they want simply because they are an "American".

I rarely ever blame these things on the president. However the Obama administration has cut NASA funding numerous times actually. This is a joke to be entirely honest. He want's the rich to pay an extra 1.5 trillion dollars in taxes over the next decade to cover his ridiculous policies and he cannot spend literally less than 1% of that to go to something that will benefit the entire world?

Ya but spending money on a modern military so successful and skillful such as the united states military isnt wasteful spending. I dont know what country your from, but no what country it is America always steps in to help out because most thats what we do.

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I do agree that space colonization isnt a to far away, but think about how much money were gonna have to spend to get the whole process going and who in their right might will be willing to pay the government to move into space. That my friend is irrelevant

I don't believe funding should be cut to NASA... I do believe there are other programs which need to be cut and seriously reformed. I would honestly like to see NASA get more into privatization and funding from outside sources...


Fuck!! imagine if NASA controlled the drug trade..

Really? The US isn't wasteful in military spending? We spend more than the next top 10 spenders combined... As for "helping out" it is always in some form of self-interest, which isn't wrong just truthful. We spend roughly 33% of our budget on military, Nasa receives 0.5%. Even if you cut Nasa just about nothing will change.


It isn't about what we can do now, but what we can do in the future. Cutting the space program is isolating ourselves on our little pebble in the universe. We are having strong breakthroughs and science, and on a weak budget for that matter. Then there is that the space program can instill nationalism, as the country unites together on something, like landing on the moon or another planet.

Don't worry about nationalism, I think you guys have already got that covered. Just see his opinion on your military as an example.

But it would instill nationalism in people like me who want to see this progress so I can be proud of my countries choices and sciences.

Isn't that just false pride? I like the NHS but I did absolutely nothing to form its creation and therefore I'm not going to proclaim myself as proud of it. You can be glad that good decisions have been made but that's about it. At most you can be proud that you voted for the right person, however every person ever has thought that.

I can be proud of my nation, the people who voted for it, the people who contributes to it. In the most minimal way I would still be contributing through my tax dollars.