NASA Uncertain How To Proceed In Developing Deep Space Module (examiner.com)

MarkWhittington writes: One of the provisions of the new NASA spending bill, which provided a hefty $1.3 billion boost to the space agency's budget, is a mandate to build a prototype habitation module for deep space exploration by 2018. Space News suggested that NASA is uncertain how to proceed with this sudden largess. Quite some time has passed since the space agency has gotten more money than expected and been told to speed up the development of an item of hardware. Usually, the opposite happens, with accompanying delays and increases in overall costs.

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Re:disgusting waste of taxpayer's money!

[fahrbot-bot]

But... but.. but... NASA already gets like 25% of the Federal budget. And now Congress wants to give them Billions more while there are starving brown transgender children that need to be bombed? GET YOUR PRIORITIES STRAIGHT, AMERICA!

For those unwilling to read the link (from 2007) provided by Thud457, I offer these excerpts:

the average American thinks that NASA gets 1/4 of the U.S. total budget

(the NASA allocation in 2007 was approximately 0.58% of the budget.)