National Planetary Exploration Car Wash and Bake Sale

An anonymous reader writes "To attract media and Congressional attention to the deep NASA planetary exploration cuts proposed to take place October 1, and the need to restore the planetary budget to present or higher levels, a National Planetary Exploration Car Wash and Bake Sale is being planned for June 9th. Organizations already involved include planetary groups at many universities, research institutions, and Moon Express (Google Lunar X Prize)."

Comments

A step further

[DNS-and-BIND]

We need to introduce this culture of poverty to America's military as well. When that happens, we'll be much more advanced as a culture.

"It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber."

Re:Public vs. private funding

[drinkypoo]

Now imagine if these people instead went out and spent their time trying to raise the money they need from private benefactors, rather than this silly attempt at shaming the government into giving them more stolen money.

Now imagine that they have been trying that tack, and they're still broke.

Going into space benefits us all. It has already paid dividends. It can pay more. It makes more sense than blowing the money on highways when we could be building rail, which can carry ten times as many passengers per dollar spent in the best case, and achieves parity in the worst case.