“While NASA’s programs are very popular and highly visible, we really don’t spend much on our space agency. In 2022, the U.S. treasury took in revenues of $4.9 trillion and then charged up another $1.4 trillion so it could spend a whopping $6.3 trillion. Of that largesse NASA received an historically generous appropriation of $24 billion. Still, that was just 0.35% of federal spending.”
-Statement by Greg Autry, Clinical Professor of Space Leadership, Policy & Business at Thunderbird School of Global Management, ASU, in a Forbes magazine article, “Pennywise, Future Foolish: Congress Moves To Cut NASA Science Budget.” As with foreign assistance, Americans tend to assume NASA has greater funding than it really has. At the same time, the majority of Americans want a strong space program.
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