Take a look at all the departments with a larger budget than NASA and you can say the same about them. So why don't we unfund them too?
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US receipt and expenditure estimates for fiscal year 2010.
True, and NASA has actually done things, sometimes great things.
Who was ever educated by the Department of Education?
How much food was produced by the Department of Agriculture?
How much energy has been generated by the Department of Energy?
I would rather spend money on a department that advances science and technology than giant bureaucracies that advance nothing but the careers of bureaucrats.