Have allocations changed? I can see the 1960's budgets going to Cold War theatre.
There are (at least) three big parts to the NASA budget: 1) Manned space flight. 2) Unmanned solar-system exploration. 3) Basic Research (my favorite). Eg: fluid-dynamics, propulsion for civil aviation, and unmanned ground-traversing vehicles. (Still, I say we rape NASAs budget and put it all ... er, a couple of billion into the sexy and exciting humanities and social sciences! [Psychohistory: the ultimate clandestine weapon.]) On Sunday 2003-02-02 22:51, Dan Minette wrote: > I did a bit of research, and have come up with the following numbers for > NASA's budget decade by decade. For the '60s, I had to do a bit of > estimation for '60 and 61, but the number shouldn't be too far off, because > that was before the NASA budget really took off. > > In constant 2002 dollars the budget was > > 60s 187 billion > 70s 127 billion > 80s 122 billion > 90s 163 billion > > Think of what was accomplished in the '60s compared to the '80s and '90s > put together. It isn't just the money. > > Dan M. > > > > _______________________________________________ > http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
