https://www.space.com/36800-five-ways-to-die-on-mars.html
NASA's budget is around $22 billion a year. The budget for welfare is over $1 trillion. For that $22 billion spent on NASA we expand the scientific knowledge base of mankind and explore the universe. For the $1 trillion spent on welfare we get very little except for funding the shiftless to sit around, smoke dope, have sex and give birth to more future welfare recipients.
Of all the useless things the U.S. government wastes money on, NASA is far, far down the list.