NASA Budget Essay

Take the nearest one dollar bill available to you and imagine it being cut into a hundred squares. Now picture yourself cutting halfway into a single one of those squares, you wouldn't even touch the ink yet. Thats the annual budget for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, more commonly known as NASA, resting at one half of one percent of the US tax dollar. Therefore, I am calling on Trump’s administration and the United States Congress to increase NASA’s funding from its current level, to at least one percent of the annual budget. NASA contributes massive amounts of economic, technological, and inspirational capital to our nation, and I believe their budget should reflect their importance to our modern day society.
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By doing exactly what they did in the 1960s during the space race but on a much bigger scale. They tour universities and high schools looking to recruit students from different walks of life and skillsets into NASA projects. More students finding jobs in science, technology, engineering and math, STEM for short, will lead to a cultural shift once again. Kids growing up to seriously want to get involved in the exploration of the cosmos and the advancement of the space …show more content…
The United States became concerned because the USSR put up Sputnik, which was a rocket built out of an emptied out casing from an intercontinental ballistic missile. That was a signal to America that Russia could very possibly get to the Moon and control high ground, something that the United States could not allow to happen. So we enacted NASA to get to the moon first. Then in 1969, when we finally land on the moon space enthusiasts estimated that we would land on Mars in another 10 years. The country seemed to completely forget why we went to the moon in the first place, we were at war. Once we saw that Russia was not going to land on the Moon any time soon, we stopped going and NASA was drastically