5 Things to Know About NASA's New Space Budget
"If by taking NASA's $19 billion we could solve all of poverty, then I would say, 'Go ahead. Do it.' But it's not. And if that $19 billion were half the budget, then I would agree that half is too much to spend on NASA. But it is actually less than half of one 1/100th of the budget. Just four-tenths of one penny on your tax dollar goes to NASA." -- Astrophysicist Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson
It's been five years since Dr. Tyson made that point in our interview with the Hayden Planetarium director. Five years later, NASA has published its latest budget request and requested an increase in funding to $24.8 billion. Viewed from one perspective, that's a 30% increase from five years ago, which seems pretty sizable.
But looked at another way, in the context of President Joe Biden's $6 trillion budget proposal for fiscal 2022, NASA's share of that budget...hasn't changed at all.
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