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Americans think NASA gets 24% of Government Budget

source: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/11/21/nasas-budget-as-far-as-americans-t...

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"Americans in general have no idea what NASA’s "cost" is. In fact, most members of the public have no idea how much any government agency’s budget is. What we do know — and have recently documented — is that the public perception of NASA’s budget is grossly inflated relative to actual dollars. In a just-completed study, we asked respondents what percentage of the national budget is allocated to NASA … NASA’s allocation, on average, was estimated to be approximately 24% of the national budget (the NASA allocation in 2007 was approximately 0.58% of the budget.)

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4 comments // Americans think NASA gets 24% of Government Budget

  • Val_Drooger
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      Val_Drooger  

    • It should also be noted that NASA's budget was at most 4% of the national total, during the Apollo era when it had full political backing from the powers that be.

    • 2 years ago
  • remanns
  • treewolf39
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      treewolf39  

    • Thanks for posting this Delia. I had to talk a guy down off of this concept the other night at dinner.
      NASA's current FY 2008 budget of $17.318 billion represents about 0.6% of the $2.9 trillion United States federal budget, 35% of total spending on academic scientific research in the United States,[5] and 269% of the National Science Foundation budget,[2] but only 61% of the National Institute of Health budget. [6]

    • 2 years ago
  • ocanada
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