HERE’S WHAT NASA COULD ACCOMPLISH IF IT HAD THE US MILITARY’S $600 BILLION BUDGET

 

For Americans, NASA has been a household name since the 1960s when it accomplished the 

seemingly impossible impossible, transporting and landing humans on the moon. Since then, 

NASA has discovered other alien worlds such as Mars and the moon of Titan, and has flown 

over all the planets in our solar system.

He has achieved so much on a very small budget. Just consider if we give NASA hundreds of 

billions of dollars a year like what we spend in the U.S. military. What else could NASA 

have done over the years?

The United States already spends more on space exploration than any other nation in the 

world. NASA receives much of this investment, the country's leading space exploration agency.

But this part of the budget that NASA gets is nothing compared to the U.S. federal budget. 

You will be surprised to hear that after NASA landed the first man on the moon in 1969, its 

budget dropped from 4.5% of the federal budget to less than 0.5%.

So let's imagine if NASA's budget hadn't been minimized? What if its funding was similar to 

that of the US military?

It's impossible to know for sure what exactly what we could have gotten, but here's a look 

at how NASA's budget compared to that of the U.S. military in 2016.

 

In other words, the army's budget for 2016 would pay for a manned mission to Mars with tens 

of billions to spare. NASA estimates that it would have cost $ 450 billion to land the first 

humans on Mars by the late 1930s or early 1940s.



What else could NASA do with $ 600 billion? Let's take a look at how NASA allocated its 

funds in 2016. This would easily meet current costs for NASA's biggest ongoing projects, 

including:

Construction and launch costs for the most powerful rocket in history, Space Launch System.

The most powerful space telescope ever made, the James Webb Space Telescope.

Collaborate with SpaceX on his first mission to Mars in 2018, the Red Dragon Mission.

Pay for NASA operations aboard the ISS until 2024.

So how would you like NASA to spend the rest?