Who pays for nasa?

Question

and why is it that instead of helping countrys where they are dying from poverty and disease, nasa spends billions of dollars on going to space? this makes me angry considering, how many of us are really going to go to space?

Thanks for the rude answers i quess i should have added more to my question. It would make me angry even if it were another country and yes it does also make me angry that the world spends billions of dollars on pointless things like space when we could be fixing the world. I wasnt just aiming at america.

Answer 1

The American taxpayers has paid on average $7500 per family on the war in Iraq. Considering how many Americans and Iraqis it has killed for absolutely no reason that should make you alot more angry.

Answer 2

The government pays for NASA, indirectly the people are paying. Do you think America is full of poverty and diseases? Give me a break, go to Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Turkey,Russia...then tell me whether America or these countries are poor. NASA is doing a very good thing. Well do you like to eat food which is only in your home or would you like to go outside and have something else even when you have some food in your home? Not many of us are going to space but we can be proud of ourselves for being intelligent.

Answer 3

The US government pays for NASA, using funds from taxes on the general public and private industry.

And if the billions spent on space make you angry, I suggest you look up what the US Federal Budget actually gets spent on. NASA got $17 billion in the last budget, compared to over $400 billion on 'Defence' and over $700 billion on medical and welfare programs. NASA gets a tiny tiny fraction of what is ALREADY being spent on poverty and disease. You want extra billions pumped into those things, how about taking it from the Defence budget, which this year used more than NASA's entire annual budget just on a few new warships for the navy.

Answer 4

The government pays for NASA. You would be surprised at the technology that comes from space exploration. Cancer research, communication technology (Computers, electronics), safety ideas that are used in your everyday live. Fire retardant processes used in building and manufacturing. Research for alternate fuels. Safer tires used on you car. Unless you don't like to drive, be safer, don't like music, computers, TV, telephone, cell phones, don't mind being sick. You have every right to be angry. Plus people that are involved directly or indirectly with the space program. You have small businesses, manufacturing and communications. Most likely close to a million people involved. Then you have the economic impact. Housing, food entertainment. Most likely several billion dollars a year. So with out the space program you my dear would be one of poverty, disease stricken people.

Answer 5

The U.S. federal government agency pays for NASA.

NASA; Independent U.S. government agency established in 1958 for research and development of vehicles and activities for aeronautics and space exploration. Its goals include improving human understanding of the universe, the solar system, and Earth and establishing a permanent human presence in space. NASA, previously the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), was created largely in response to the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik in 1957.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), civilian agency of the U.S. federal government with the mission of conducting research and developing operational programs in the areas of space exploration, artificial satellites (see satellite, artificial), rocketry, and space telescopes (see Hubble Space Telescope) and observatories. It is also responsible for international cooperation in space matters. NASA came into existence on Oct. 1, 1958, superseding the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA), an agency that had been oriented primarily toward laboratory research. While the NACA budget never went higher than $5 million and its staff never exceeded 500, the NASA annual budget reached $14.2 billion in 1995, and its staff reached a maximum size of 34,000 in 1966 (21,000 in 1995), with some *400,000 contract* employees working directly on agency programs.

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Answer 6

You're right, there is a great deal of suffering and poverty in the world. And the US is the most generous nation on earth. We're doing far more than our share for global welfare. Enough, I think, that we can have a guilt-free space program.

Answer 7

We have to learn how to go there sometime. I think your anger should be directed at the more military-minded among you. Or maybe even at the millions of consumers who borrow money they don't own to buy what they don't need.

Short answer to what could be a very long discussion.