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Re:A huge fireball exploded in Earth's atmosphere in Decembe... by dfgert on Monday March 18, 2019 @01:30PM (#19423100)
NASA actually receive lots of funding(might be second after military). Most of their work doesn't align with any of the politics promises, even then they receive good chunk of budget spending.
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Re:A huge fireball exploded in Earth's atmosphere in Decembe... by mturmon on Monday March 18, 2019 @01:50PM (#19423295)
NASA 2018 budget is $20.7B. It is not in any way "second after military".

NIH 2018 budget is $37B, NSF is $7.8B. DOD budget just for R&D and test/evaluation is $88B.

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Re:A huge fireball exploded in Earth's atmosphere in Decembe... by moftz on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @10:17AM (#19442413)
At least there is the benefit of DOD tech trickling down to NASA tech at some point.
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Re:A huge fireball exploded in Earth's atmosphere in Decembe... by joejerryronnie on Monday March 18, 2019 @02:16PM (#19423562)
So, 3rd behind military and NIH then?
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Re:A huge fireball exploded in Earth's atmosphere in Decembe... by mturmon on Monday March 18, 2019 @02:45PM (#19423875)
No, no, no. I just picked a couple of numbers of relevant research-related agencies as a general comparative. ("This is is the kind of league NASA is in.") Other comparatives might be DOE, NOAA, USGS, NIST.

The federal budget is about $4000B. Discretionary spending is about $1200B. NASA is so far down in the noise of this that it's not funny (20B/1200B ~ 1.7%).

As an example, Federal highway spending (not state) is $44B.

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Re:A huge fireball exploded in Earth's atmosphere in Decembe... by jefe_ on Monday March 18, 2019 @02:52PM (#19423942)
Health and Human Services was $1.7 Trillion, Social Security was $1.1 Trillion, Defense was $1.1 Trillion, NASA is pretty far down the list (~19th), at $24 Billion, .35% of budget:

https://www.usaspending.gov/#/explorer/agency

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Re:A huge fireball exploded in Earth's atmosphere in Decembe... by viach on Monday March 18, 2019 @01:49PM (#19423284)
In the end, it's always about politics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA#Political_oppos...

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Re:A huge fireball exploded in Earth's atmosphere in Decembe... by joejerryronnie on Monday March 18, 2019 @02:17PM (#19423568)
Isn’t everything?
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