[kach22i]

Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy

Based on the decaying orbit, I would agree. Cool video, it did a great job of breaking down orbital mechanics into pretty understandable terms.

It amazes me that anyone can take issue with NASA. Considering that they currently represent less than 1% of the federal budget, what they manage to do with the money is incredible. You use innovations from the space program every day. Not to mention the exponential gains in science, aeronautics, and understanding of our own universe and beyond that they have provided our people. Space is really the final frontier, I cannot fathom how anyone cannot see value in exploring and understanding it.

I don't get the negativity either, but you have to figure that the same people having issues with NASA's $20.7 billion in 2018, the highest since 2009, have no problem air conditioning tents for the same amount of money.

2018
How the heck did NASA (and science) get such a good 2018 budget?
How the heck did NASA (and science) get such a good 2018 budget? | The Planetary Society

$20.7 billion

2011
U.S. military spends a cool $20 billion on air conditioning annually in Iraq and Afghanistan
U.S. military spends a cool $20billion on air conditioning annually in Iraq and Afghanistan | Daily Mail Online

Burning money: Air conditioning units attached to individual free-standing tents take a gallon of fuel each, which soon goes in the searing 125 degree heat

2011
Air Conditioning The Military Costs More Than NASA’s Entire Budget
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/21/air-conditioning-military-cost-nasa_n_881828.html

Gotta have A/C.