[DManA]

What do you consider a "return"? American tax payers have invested half a trillion in NASA alone? God knows what the military has spent.

Seen in the year-by-year breakdown listed below, the total amounts (in nominal dollars) that NASA has been budgeted from 1958 to 2011 amounts to $526.18 billion dollars—an average of $9.7 billion per year.

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

[JRandomFreeper]

NASA should be shut down. Period. I don't consider taxes taken at gunpoint an investment.

However.... commercial launches of commercial payloads have been going on as well. Those, I approve of.

/johnny