Billions for bailouts, but nothing for NASA???

[Lady's Human]

The NASA budget for FY 2009 is 17.6 billion dollars.

That means each person in the US is paying 15 cents per day (Using the estimate of 305 million US residents) for a program which has had massive returns on the investment.

I'll take that bargain any day of the week.

[aTailOf2Kitties]

That means each person in the US is paying 15 cents per day (Using the estimate of 305 million US residents) for a program which has had massive returns on the investment

well I'd rather have my 15 cents go to help one of the thousands of people who lost their jobs in the Recession than to some overpaid nerd who figured out how to spend 68 million dollars on a couple of one-way probes to the moon.

I've been to Kennedy Space Center and enjoyed every second of it. Let's face it, space is mysterious and really interesting. I'm not saying NASA souldn't exist, I'm just saying I think the gov't needs to focus more money on fixing problems right here in the Good Ole U-S-of-A before spending billions of dollars exploring space. Don't suspend all activities, just tone it down a little.