Help NASA Help You
If you like sunglasses, digital cameras, and out-of-season fruit, thank NASA. Giving the National Aeronautics and Space Administration more of the budget pie is in the best interest of everyone.
Organization Penny4NASA created this campaign to raise awareness that advancement of space exploration technology is not a waste of government funds. Last year NASA was under extreme pressure to slash costs, and with the fiscal cliff looming, talk has begun once again.
Penny4NASA aims to change the public perception of NASA’s role in our society. Currently, federal funding of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration makes up a grand total of 0.48% of the annual budget. At $7 billion a year, that sounds like a lot until you take into account we spend around $10 billion A MONTH in Afghanistan. On top of that, all NASA patents go the U.S. Treasury, not back into the program — meaning for every $1 spent on space science, the government sees about $8 back.
All of this leads up to the mission of Penny4NASA. Its goal, instead of slashing NASA’s already minuscule funding, is to raise it to a full 1% of the annual budget. If you’d like to help, visit its website!
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KleeIrwinRocks! 5 months agoThank you for this! The myriad of times that people complain that we should spend money on more “important” things other than NASA and its research, or at the worst, complaining that we’re wasting money that way, are so short-sighted it’s almost scary. Besides the fact that money is always allocated for different things all the time, including what those people would consider “important,” NASA’s research has done so much for our modern lifestyles that to complain is ultimately a practice of willful ignorance.
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tobyyoung63 5 months agoNice one - about time people realised it isn’t just about pushing back the boundaries of human knowledge in space travel but has real practical applications we use in out everyday lives. Support NASA funding for everyone’s future !
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