[bacheaul]

Spaceflight is not what you want to be picking as a point of comparison if you want to talk about funding government agencies.

> The amount the U.S. military spends annually on air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan: $20.2 billion, according to a former Pentagon official. That's more than NASA's budget.

https://www.npr.org/2011/06/25/137414737/among-the-costs-of-...

[missedthecue]

What we pay for what we get is insane though. Imagine what SpaceX (or other enterprising group of engineers) could do with a guaranteed $20B of annual funding.