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TSA gets more money than NASA!

(and TSA is just a tiny part of "homeland security (theater)" )

To be fair, a lot of money that went into ICBM research ended up being applied by NASA.

But I agree with you. If only we could convince the five top military spenders to cut back just a little, we'd be terraforming Mars and Venus by the end of the week. ;-)

But at the same time the USA spends more money on space programs than all other countries combined.

It could simply mean that running space programs in the USA is far more costly than in other countries. Someone did say that NASA of the recent age is less about research and more about massive employment.

I would say, the price difference adjusted budget of NASA is also much bigger than that of any other nation. Do you see the Russians walking on the moon or driving nuclear cars on Mars?

Guess this is because no other country has that level of expertise of space program like US.

Your causality presumption may be reversed.

Yeah funny how much we spend on stuff that blows up (or never does because it's never used and we have to spend even more billions dismantling them).