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I know it is old news, but sort of helps to put things into perspective:
According to Steve Anderson, a retired brigadier general who served as Gen. Petraeus' chief logistician in Iraq, the Department of Defense spends $20 billion air conditioning tents and temporary structures for the military. That's more than NASA's entire $19 billion annual budget.Jun 18, 2011
The truth is that Americans annually spend 30 times NASA's budget just on gambling, while also 15 times NASA's annual budget is spent on treatment of tobacco and alcohol related medical problems in the US.
Australia and Iceland are the only two countries in the OECD that do not have a space program, but we have committed to buying seventy two (72) F35As that cost from memory about 150 million, each.
As I wrote before, it is all about priorities...
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