Re: Optional reasoning
The space race in the 60's was a case of the project management triangle being skewed towards we will get to the moon first, damn the costs.
If you really think that NASA is being mismanaged, how much do you think it would have cost the US to have Haliburton or Boeing to put the rovers on Mars or send pictures back from the Kuiper Belt?
NASA's FY 2017 budget of $19.5 billion (in nominal dollars) represented 0.47% of the $3.98 trillion United States federal budget during that year.[2]
NASA was allocated $601.31 billion (in nominal dollars) overall from 1958 to 2018.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA
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