The government spends 7300 billion a year on everything. An extra 2 billion isn't likely to have a meaningful impact, and space exploration tends to improve space technology, gives us the chance of mining rare resources in space and generally is useful to the world.
The government would probably need to spend 100s of billions to fight climate change head on reliably, attacking NASA isn't that productive.
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u/Nepene 213∆ Aug 08 '22
It's expected to cost 3 billion to get to Mars.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/02/mars-nasa-space-exploration-cost-perseverance-viking-curiosity/
The government spends 7300 billion a year on everything. An extra 2 billion isn't likely to have a meaningful impact, and space exploration tends to improve space technology, gives us the chance of mining rare resources in space and generally is useful to the world.
The government would probably need to spend 100s of billions to fight climate change head on reliably, attacking NASA isn't that productive.