[Dylan16807]

I wish they kept dumping more and more money into NASA instead of just directly into the military.

[nandemo]

NASA is part of the military-industrial complex.

See the first link joering2 posted. If you look at the top 10 defense contractors you'll find that several of them are also Nasa contractors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NASA_contractors

[Dylan16807]

That's my point, I want as much of the "let's fund the military-industrial complex" money as possible to go to NASA. Right now they're struggling on funding.

[jonhohle]

It seems like NASA is always "struggling" to get funding, when in reality, there have been very few years when their budget wasn't higher than the previous year[0], even when taking inflation into account.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA

[nitrogen]

And yet there are still science programs canceled half way through development.