It is expected to happen only about 3 times in a century (from article).
In other words, building this system of telescopes won't affect the next elections in any positive way.
In other words, building this system of telescopes won't affect the next elections in any positive way.
I’m sure you’re the only one to notice the obvious joke.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA#Political_oppos...
NIH 2018 budget is $37B, NSF is $7.8B. DOD budget just for R&D and test/evaluation is $88B.
The federal budget is about $4000B. Discretionary spending is about $1200B. NASA is so far down in the noise of this that it's not funny (20B/1200B ~ 1.7%).
As an example, Federal highway spending (not state) is $44B.